>You guessed it. Same thing again.
>
>Though thankfully the second batch of four arrived mostly intact... Three
>out of four usable from the second batch, plus the one usable from the
>first batch.
>
>But seriously. WTF?

<VBG> did you take a photo of the first batch, to send as part of the 
complaint?

Reminds me of buying a heap of 2102 1k x 1 RAM chips, when first getting 
into microprocessors, just as they were becoming widespread. I think I 
bought 64 of them, and they arrived through the post loose packed in a jiffy 
bag - yes all that plastic bubble lining straight onto the chips.

I complained about the lack of static protection, marked each one with a 
cross on the underside, right by pin 1 so I could identify them again, sent 
them back, and received another batch, more suitably packed. Later on I 
related the story to someone and he had bought the chips and used them. 
Apparently they worked OK, but he had noticed the cross I scratched on them 
and wondered what it was for. 

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