I needed a JTAG debugger for an upcoming project. Nothing commercial, so the J-Link Edu seemed like a good option. At the time it was in stock at most of the places you'd expect, but I was already placing an order with element14 so I popped it in my cart instead of paying for separate shipping from another place. A day later I get confirmation that stock has been assigned to my order with an estimated delivery date.
Fast forward to today: I've received the rest of my order and was keen to start the project, so I check the order status and realise the J-Link hasn't shipped yet. On their website it has status "Contact us for more information", so I give them a call. It turns out that for some reason they no longer have stock and they estimate they'll have more stock in April... 2023. I have no idea why they didn't think it'd be useful to send me an email or something before it was sold out everywhere.
Anyway, I just wanted to rant. If you need something critical to a project then maybe stay away from element14.
If anyone knows any good J-Link alternatives that'd be great too.