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Solder Pricing Confusion
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Garywoo:
I'm looking to buy around 500g of 60/40 solder wire, but the prices on the UK CPC site don't make any sense to me. See the attached screenshot showing the prices.
Why is it cheaper to buy 5x 100g reels, or 2x 250g reels, than 1x 500g reel? The bulk pricing is seemingly backwards. What's going on?
thm_w:
Don't think anyone can tell you why, thats just how they set up the pricing.
With the 5+ one, they have a generic discount, presumably, across most items.

It looks like lead free is more priced as you expect.
SmallCog:
My guess is that 60/40 isn’t used as much commercially any more so there’s not much demand for bigger rolls making them a bit of a special uncommon thing

They probably sell a lot more of the smaller rolls so the pricing is sharper

I can’t think of a good reason to have 1 big roll over a few smaller ones so take it as a win
BrokenYugo:
I'm not sure how exactly this stuff is made, cast a tube, fill it with flux, then draw/extrude? Might be that the shorter lengths are good chunks of failed runs or made on a smaller cheaper to operate machine.

Are they all the same flux formulation and content?
tooki:
Also, since that’s not name-brand solder, their pricing may reflect being sold for hobbyists, and their buying smaller reels in volume. Or the wholesale price has been rising, and they ordered the smaller reels longer ago. (Many businesses only update prices when they themselves purchase.)

I wouldn’t read anything into it. Pricing oddities happen all the time, in all areas of sales.
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