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| Element14 do not sell red wire in 1 metre lengths (seriously) |
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| Ian.M:
--- Quote from: JustMeHere on June 15, 2019, 04:25:05 am ---If anyone wants to see the "cost of paying someone to cut" the wire, take a look at the price breaks of 100nf MLCC (smd chip capacitors) on Digikey. --- End quote --- That's a minimal waste situation. as when you by SMD parts 'cut tape', there's no guarantee that you will get a single piece of tape. If you want/need that, you have to pay the premium for re-reeling onto a minireel. Therefore, the supplier only has to have a single 'open' reel for each part they offer 'cut tape'. That's a lot easier to manage than wire where you can easily end up with several part reels of the same type with less than 20m on due to the need to fulfil the order with a continuous length. A bricks&mortar store will deal with that and avoid the need to track remaining length accurately by when a reel comes up short, bagging and labelling the insufficient length, dropping it in the bargains bin and starting a fresh reel. That's a *LOT* harder for an online store. |
| Kjelt:
I must say that is what happened last year with tme. I asked for a 9m cable for cablechain usage, price €8.50 per metre and got one cable of 3m and one of 6m four days later. They said I should have stated it on the order that it should have been one single length. No refund. :palm: |
| Ian.M:
That's pretty shitty. Even if there was a checkbox you missed for that for that item on the order form, you shouldn't have to specify single length for wire of less than one reel quantity. Having to specify that in a free text other instructions field is IMHO unreasonable. At the very least they should have contacted you to see if the substitution with two shorter lengths was acceptable. 10x 1m lengths of <whatever> that is normally sold and used in continuous lengths, are *NOT* equivalent to a single 10m length and any supplier that tries to tell you they are is full of crap. If they wouldn't accept a return for full refund and I'd paid by credit card, I'd have requested a charge back by the issuer on the basis: Goods not as described. |
| exe:
I like colored teflon/silicone wires as insulation doesn't shrink when soldering. Colors really help when there are many wires (e.g., when prototyping). Because of this I can't just buy a big roll from a distributor. Also the price for teflon/silicone wires is crazy in EU, so I buy from aliexpress. Those guys have no issues with short cables. Anyway, I'm more than happy to pay the handling fee to a reputable distributor. I'm also okay to buy, say, 10M rolls, but buying 100M, or 250M rolls is just expensive waste. I'm also fine if a cable comes in several pieces. PS also bought some short pieces of wire on a ham fest. |
| tooki:
--- Quote from: Kjelt on June 15, 2019, 09:07:07 am ---I must say that is what happened last year with tme. I asked for a 9m cable for cablechain usage, price €8.50 per metre and got one cable of 3m and one of 6m four days later. They said I should have stated it on the order that it should have been one single length. No refund. :palm: --- End quote --- What vendor? Name and shame! |
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