> This was annoying because the seller is based in the UK and claims you should buy from them because you take your chances buying from China.
There are a couple of vendors who do this in the UK. They sell counterfeit crap while complaining about it loudly. I bet this was littlediode. Got into a large argument with them over sending out crappy clone / reject bin transistors a few years back.
Edit: at the same time I would like to buy a hell of a lot of 2N5458's and relabel them as MPF102's and retire. The MPF102 was an unbinned garbage JFET with wide characteristic spread. The 5458 is a binned one within the range of an MPF102. Same process. Of course though all the crap schematics out there on the Internet demand the MPF102 because that's what Radio Shack sold and no one knows how to substitute parts!