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| VK3DRB:
--- Quote from: TimFox on January 06, 2023, 03:20:19 pm ---Many years ago, in grad school, 5% carbon-comp resistors were "free" from the electronics shop, since they were too low-priced to make billing economical. I specifically remember using 9,100 (and decades above and below) because the unimaginative users grabbed all the 10,000 (and decades above and below) from the bin. --- End quote --- In every lab I have worked in, from IBM to medium and small companies, stocks of through-hole 1K, 10K, 100K resistors and 100nF capacitors are often cleaned out. SMD 10K resistors seem to be the first to go missing from resistor books. The reason is the engineers or technicians who used the last of them were not bothered buying replacements; or if they did buy them, they only ordered a very small quantity due to tunnel vision. By the way, TI parts are returning to the market. No doubt, supply is increasing, but the prices remain relatively high. |
| peter-h:
--- Quote --- but the prices remain relatively high. --- End quote --- They will - until a total collapse :) I am getting distis contacting me and chasing for business. Obviously nobody is buying much... The funniest thing is this: I had a dispute with a (huge) disti over them rising prices after an order was placed and acked. I refused to pay it, but amazingly they still shipped them. On top legal advice I sent the parts back for a refund. The disti went into the super-arrogant mode, adding 5% interest per month and freezing the account. That was months ago. It meant some other parts we had on order would also obviously not arrive, so I bought them elsewhere. And guess what turned up yesterday? A box with the other parts! Worth about 5k. So this (huge) disti is so utterly desperate they are lifting frozen accounts to get 5k's worth of stuff out of the door. |
| Karel:
--- Quote from: peter-h on January 12, 2023, 09:55:17 am ---The funniest thing is this: I had a dispute with a (huge) disti over them rising prices after an order was placed and acked. I refused to pay it, but amazingly they still shipped them. On top legal advice I sent the parts back for a refund. The disti went into the super-arrogant mode, adding 5% interest per month and freezing the account. That was months ago. It meant some other parts we had on order would also obviously not arrive, so I bought them elsewhere. And guess what turned up yesterday? A box with the other parts! Worth about 5k. So this (huge) disti is so utterly desperate they are lifting frozen accounts to get 5k's worth of stuff out of the door. --- End quote --- What's the name of that distributor? |
| DC1MC:
--- Quote from: Karel on January 12, 2023, 10:36:46 am --- --- Quote from: peter-h on January 12, 2023, 09:55:17 am ---The funniest thing is this: I had a dispute with a (huge) disti over them rising prices after an order was placed and acked. I refused to pay it, but amazingly they still shipped them. On top legal advice I sent the parts back for a refund. The disti went into the super-arrogant mode, adding 5% interest per month and freezing the account. That was months ago. It meant some other parts we had on order would also obviously not arrive, so I bought them elsewhere. And guess what turned up yesterday? A box with the other parts! Worth about 5k. So this (huge) disti is so utterly desperate they are lifting frozen accounts to get 5k's worth of stuff out of the door. --- End quote --- What's the name of that distributor? --- End quote --- You'll never get it, for legal and "that happened" >:D reasons. |
| madires:
In most juristictions the publishing of a factual report or personal experiences is totally fine and protected. But you might have to consider privacy regulations, which don't apply here, because the other party is a company (as long as you don't name individual persons). Name and shame! ;) |
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