...."the guy selling them on eBay was simply a unsuspecting dupe, My personal opinion is that he truely didn't know that the chips were fakes. So I hope that Playboy or whoever doesn't come down on him but instead come down hard on the guy who manufactured them."

Geez ... this all sounds so familiar... like the brass cores. How about the "unsuspecting" seller disclosing where he got the chips from? These things didn't magically appear out of nowhere.