Element14 do not sell red wire in 1 metre lengths (seriously)

[Kjelt]

It was tme but it was a special order from Igus, all kinds of small legal letters in this case.
What probably happened is that they had 3m left and sent it and ordered the remaining 6 from Igus.
Oh well I accepted my loss since it was the only thing that has happened in four years of further excellent service.

[stevelup]

I bought 25M of LED tape a while ago and was sent 25 x 1M lengths each individually packed, and every piece had had connectors soldered to it...

Yes, I should have checked, but really if you order 25M of something that comes from the manufacturer on a reel, it's not unreasonable to expect to get a single length!

[299792458]

I caved and got 100m red and black rolls from Element14, but they are not even on proper reels!  Just a roll with string tied around it.  I had an old 100m reel of earth wire I got from them on clearence a few years back which came on a proper reel.  Not happy!  The 10m lengths of other colours I ordered were also split, with some 1 or 2 meter lengths arriving next day with the rest ariving a few days later, but this doesn't bother me too much since I'd only be using short lengths anyway.

[ArthurDent]

"...but they are not even on proper reels!"

It could be that a 'proper reel' to them, the way they have to buy it, is on a 300 or 3000 meter reel and you are getting the shortest cut length they are willing to sell. I've got a lot of wire packaged like that (a hank) with just a tie around it - see photo below. Bottom line, it worked just as well as any other length of wire I bought. 

[Kjelt]

I bought Lapp cable and they had to be per reel.
Indeed the nr of meters per reel differ per diameter, the 0,75 and 0,5m ² went per 100m but the smaller diameter 0,25mm² went per 250m 

Anyway since these distances are not handy to have in your shack, I bought empty reels at Conrad and wound them with an accudrill and DIY jig.

Edit I am on holiday so can not take a picture, this is from three years ago, in the mean time it is almost full