Proper Observance of ESD Handling Proceedures

From: Mail List <mail.list_at_analog-and-digital-solutions.com>
Date: Sun Sep 8 15:43:00 2002

If any of you list members ( that are also eBay buyers, as many of you are
) feel
as we do, that computer components should be shipped in some type of antistatic
packaging, you might wish to avoid purchases from ...

         eBay seller ... davidth

         dba ... Tec Instruments Inc

We purchased a computer card from them that they did not place in an antistatic
bag. They just wrapped it in clear bubble wrap, which is not an antistatic
material.
As most, if not all, of you well know, the pink bubble wrap is the
antistatic variety.
We just purchased a roll ourselves that cost us less than eight cents per
square
foot. One square foot ( eight pennies worth ) would have been sufficient to
have
done a decent job, but that was not done.

They also did not realize we had paid them for the part virtually
immediately after
the auction was over ( IIRC we purchased with the Buy It Now feature ) and
SIX WEEKS+ LATER when we still hadn't received it, we had to call and inquire
as to it's whereabouts.

We felt that a job done that poorly did not deserve a positive comment, so we
gave them a neutral comment calling it like it was. This seller sees fit to
retaliate
against neutral comments and lie in their response.

Just a heads up for anyone that would wish their purchases not to be
senselessly
placed at risk of damage before you have ever even received it.
Received on Sun Sep 08 2002 - 15:43:00 BST