I remember being told this one by a TV repair guy. Some new guy comes
to town and offers walkman power adapters for Rs 40/- which was about
a fourth of the market price then. People buy it in huge numbers and a
couple of days later the complaints start coming in. By this time the
salesman has left town. The local electronics repair people open it up
and find dummy pins with two AAA cells inside the casing. :)

Regards,
Anand

On 3/30/07, Jinx <joecolquitt@clear.net.nz> wrote:
> > I know it happens a lot in the computer memory market
>
> And batteries. Eh Russell ?
>
> This is the cheekiest one I've heard of lately
>
> Fake battery-less torch
>
> http://www.siliconchip.com.au/cms/A_108290/article.html
>
> Cat no. ST3342 at www.jaycar.co.nz
>
> I've got a proper one, very handy
>
> > There was a  huge amount of ram chips that were marked as being
> > made by samsung, yet when the chips were tested were actual
> > found to be generics with a samsung label
>
> Someone got busted in Auckland a few years ago selling RAM chips
> that were actually empty.
>
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