So, I ordered some eproms.....

I recently ran out of 2532 Eproms after a couple of repairs.  I normally don't go through too many of these, but things happen, and I needed more.  But they are proving difficult to find these days.  I eventually came across a link for a place called epromman.com that claimed to have them.  There were some folks recommending them on a couple websites, so I opted to take a chance, particularly since the prices were fantastic.  2716's were $0.50 each, and 2532's were $1.00 each.  I half expected them to never show up, but they shipped fast and arrived in just a couple of days.

They arrived, like this in their anti-static bag.....

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Taking them out, the 2532's were put on a sheet of black chip foam, but many of the 2716's looked like this......

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Now, I didn't really expect them to all be erased, tested and verified as good. I don't mind having to clean off old labels and put them in my chip eraser, but banged up all to hell like that?  I eventually got the legs straight enough to at least fit them into tubes for long term storage.....

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Needless to say, I am not happy with the packaging that they arrived in.  Chip tubes only cost like $0.25 or so from Jameco that hold a dozen or more chips each.  So there's really no excuse for packaging like this if you're running a website that sells Eproms in large numbers.  I will not be placing any repeat orders from this source.