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How Do Chinese Suppliers Have So Much Better Prices, Even On American Products?

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JoeN:
I was watching a video on a competitor's  :P Youtube channel and saw a price that I thought was pretty incredible.  I know we all see incredible prices from time to time on eBay from Chinese suppliers and assume the parts fell off a truck or are fakes, but this is a reputable company as far as I know.  Anyone want to hazard a guess how this happens? 

Xilinx XC6SLX16-2FTG256C

JLCBCB price: $4.92
Digikey price:  $26.46

madires:
Promotion to increase market share, market specific pricing, clearance sale, ...

wraper:
Not nearly everything there is cheaper. Many parts are more expensive. However in general Chinese do not make huge markup on low quantities, unlike western companies.

RoadRunner:
Digikey is most the the time has higher price than even mouser or arrow.  You can get better price than Digikey at many place.s

Offer on Chinese suppliers is most of the is just one off. may get in now may not again later in time.

mikeselectricstuff:
FPGA companies have always had very wierd pricing, and in the past I've seen 50% differences between list prices at Digikey and franchised distributor quotes for "supported pricing", even for 100x qtys.

Any item where >1x pricing is not shown on Digikey means the supplier really wants you to talk to a specialist distributor

I'm sure there must be some reasoning behind it, but I have no doubt that they will have lost some design wins due to people seeing the DK pricing and not bothering to look any further

With China there may also be some grey market supplies floating about.

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