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Something is wrong with mouser
TimFox:
The problem faced by those customers using variable rates through middlemen was huge bills. The problem faced by almost everyone was catastrophic failure of heat due to cut off gas and electricity, followed by failure of the water supply. If the only problem with rarely-occurring extreme weather were temporary loss of revenue, then it makes economic sense not to invest considerable sums in winterizing the equipment to the level found in North Dakota. The cost to the general population (death, injury, and property destruction) of the rare event (roughly every ten years) is not included in the system’s incentives. One possible improvement (apparently not used in Texas) is “capacity pricing” (q.v.).
floobydust:
Critical infrastructure - power, water, natural gas, telecom - should be government owned. It used to be over here, then most of it got sold/privatized and now corporations suck the cash out of people and there are many leeches or middlemen. Imagine being a parasite corporation whose sole existence is based upon adding fat to utilities, doing no upgrades or charging big dollars to do them. In this regard, communism looks pretty good.
Update:
Thank you for contacting Mouser Electronics.
Due to the recent snowstorm in Texas, we are experiencing a 2-5 day delay shipping orders.
Please let us know if you have any questions."
Kind regards,
Customer Service Representative
Mouser Electronics, Inc.
(800) 346-6873
rsjsouza:
--- Quote from: SilverSolder on February 26, 2021, 06:24:43 pm ---Using these middlemen can be a good way of cutting the bills, but you have to keep switching providers since they only give a good price for a shortish period.
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Yes, it is like insurance... But sometimes you win and sometimes you lose. That is a dumpster of a situation. In my particular case I can't choose - the city owns everything and charges a price more or less in the middle of the pack.
--- Quote from: SilverSolder on February 26, 2021, 06:24:43 pm ---It is a filthy industry. Why not just give people decent prices in the first place, so this kind of insanity becomes unnecessary? Too simple, too "commie"?
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I don't quite understand these jabs, but oh well... Fair prices are always heavily dependent on the running costs of infrastructure and private companies need to survive and produce some profit, but oversight has to be in place. Leaving only to the government to run these is also a problem due to the same lack of accountability - I have experience with both scenarios and can tell how corruption can be rampant, especially when government is involved. The answer is always somewhere on the middle.
MarkF:
Order update:
I ordered on Feb 12
and received it Feb 22
Not bad considering the major snow storm across the whole USA.
BrokenYugo:
Absent mindedly ordered on the evening of the 17th, shipped on the 26th.
I hope this event was enough of a kick in the pants to all the corps who lost big money over this mess that they push for some serious change for the better. I'm sure a good amount of those long pending Mouser orders got cancelled and went elsewhere. The only things that stopped me were some experience with getting hit hard by winter weather, and the fact that I'm a hobbyist screwing around and not really impacted by waiting a week.
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