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| ColdPower:
--- Quote from: exe on December 22, 2020, 01:25:58 pm ---I'd expect discounts on such products. I like buying parts that marked on tme "until stock lasts" as usually it means a good deal. Although sometimes it goes not very smooth. Like, I wanted to buy some cheap obsolete polymer caps, they had only 9 left in stock, but minimum purchase quantity was 10. It took me a lot of time back and forth with support to resolve it. So, I saved maybe 10 or 20 euros on caps, but spent hours :). --- End quote --- I always hope my neighbours can't hear my blessings every time I get to place an order with TME :-DD Still can't get the hang of their parking, orders, basket without add to basket button - it's a hit and miss every time. Admittedly they have great prices sometimes not only on last stock parts, but on active ones as well. My only issue with them (when I manage to actually order) on multiple occasions has been packaging (one of the great things with DK - have NEVER had damaged parts due to bad packaging). Last time they even sent full tray of power transistors with no ESD protection whatsoever :palm: |
| Siwastaja:
TME is fundamentally really good with good pricing and fast deliveries, but their website screams "consultants sold us ERP and SAP and a few other three-letter acronyms" all over. I mostly find that ridiculously funny but there is real chance it causing PTSD to some customers who have had to work with/around said systems and possibly burnt off doing that. It's surprisingly responsive, through, for being what it is, and you can get the job done (i.e., I have always managed to place an order and print an invoice), but there is always that lingering fear that all hell may break loose any time. |
| exe:
--- Quote from: wraper on December 22, 2020, 01:33:02 pm ---Most distros charge only for quantity dispatched, so you can by 10. Remaining 1 will never arrive and you won't be charged for it. TME charges full amount right away, maybe when they realize they cannot order them, they will simply make a refund. --- End quote --- I couldn't put caps in the basket because it was not possible to order more than in stock, and min quantity was 10. They created a custom offer for me, which is after a few email back and forth I managed to accept and pay. |
| mag_therm:
I intentionally buy some components from surplus. Solderability with age is certainly an issue. I am doing an old tube restoration today. Somtimes the leads go brown when hot and the solder balls up. Rubbing the capacitor leads with a dry paper towel until shiny before soldering helps. Then paint with flux before soldering in. Oh.. and mistakes happen The cathode resistors metering grid bias need to be 10 Ohm , I ordered 2 Watt 1% The ones from surplus were coded: brown black black white brown. band 4 is a bright white, I compared with other gray and silver bands I think that must be an obsolete code. They measure 0.1 Ohm instead of 10 Ohm Actually today, 0.1 Ohm should be coded: brown black black gray brown. And 10 Ohm should be brown black black gold brown. |
| tooki:
--- Quote from: ColdPower on December 21, 2020, 09:58:25 pm ---2. In my dictionary obsolete doesn't mean past expiration date --- End quote --- "Obsolete" means a part isn't being made any more. I don't see how one can have an expectation of fresh stock of an item that's no longer being made. Remember also that with electronic components, at (end product) manufacturing scale, a distributor SKU needs to absolutely, positively identify a specific variant of a specific part, not its successor or some other substitute. Sure, for most applications, the newer EEU-EB1J4R7S (DK SKU P13473-ND) will be a drop-in substitute for the EEU-EB1J4R7 (DK SKU P13146-ND) you ordered. But that's up to the (product) manufacturer to decide and validate, not the component manufacturer or the distributor. So if you order a P13146-ND, and they have one to sell you, that's what you are you going to get, not the newer version. What I'm curious about is how you managed to order it, since they've presumably been obsolete for quite some time. Or are you actually saying you placed an order for P13473-ND but received P13146-ND instead? |
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