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Has Dave done a tear down of this Chinese Fluke Meter?
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Qmavam:
  This Fluke meter is on EBAY for $13.99. It a 17B version. All markings on back are in Chinese.
The manual is Chinese no English.

https://www.ebay.com/itm/NEW-FLUKE-17B-F17B-Digital-Multimeter-w-Free-Case-w-Fluke-Test-Leads-TL75/362862521014?ssPageName=STRK%3AMEBIDX%3AIT&_trksid=p2060353.m2749.l2649

                          Mikek
xavier60:
Another seller had started selling the same model about the same time for an unrealistically low price.
The seller's feedback is mostly from buyers with very low feedback score.

https://www.ebay.com/itm/NEW-FLUKE-17B-F17B-Digital-Multimeter-w-Free-Case-w-Fluke-Test-Leads-TL75/312916170772?_trkparms=aid%3D555018%26algo%3DPL.SIM%26ao%3D1%26asc%3D57922%26meid%3Dc105476f739940c4b63fe19ae8d8efb2%26pid%3D100005%26rk%3D1%26rkt%3D12%26mehot%3Dpf%26sd%3D362862521014%26itm%3D312916170772%26pmt%3D1%26noa%3D0%26pg%3D2047675&_trksid=p2047675.c100005.m1851

Other low price listings are just bait and switch. The price of the probes only is advertised.
retiredcaps:
Dave did a teardown of the 17B

xavier60:
The listing is actually for the 17B+ which can be calibrated without fully opening the case, http://assets.fluke.com/manuals/15BPlus_cmeng0000.pdf
I purchased the 18B+ for use in the field. Im running mine on NiMh cells to avoid electrolyte leakage damage.
DBecker:
Both of those eBay sellers appear to be scam accounts.

They have perfect 100% positive feedback, but it's all older sales of swimsuits and T-shirts.

One seller has sold 137 multimeters, yet there is no feedback from any buyer on this product.

The delivery estimate is 60 days, which means that you won't have a chance to leave negative feedback when the product isn't delivered, and it will have dropped off of your default 60 day history so you'll probably not notice to request a refund.

Sellers frequently complain about how the ebay refund system is heavily biased to believe the buyer.  It's because most of the problems are one-sided -- sellers like this skew the statistics by making lots of transactions before disappearing.

Edited for clarity.

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