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james_s:
--- Quote from: JohnnyMalaria on March 09, 2021, 06:38:30 pm ---I don't understand why people expect business as usual.
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Probably because so many places are doing business as usual. My friends shop never closed, the place my partner works is also classified as an essential business, they never locked down. It can be argued how much precaution is reasonable, but the fact remains that a large number of businesses continued doing business as usual throughout the pandemic. Place an order from Amazon for example and it will arrive in roughly the normal time span. Beyond the first month or two of the pandemic last year, delays have been the exception rather than the norm in my experience. The places that have managed to avoid major hiccups are booming.
JohnnyMalaria:
--- Quote from: james_s on March 09, 2021, 08:27:34 pm ---
--- Quote from: JohnnyMalaria on March 09, 2021, 06:38:30 pm ---I don't understand why people expect business as usual.
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Probably because so many places are doing business as usual. My friends shop never closed, the place my partner works is also classified as an essential business, they never locked down. It can be argued how much precaution is reasonable, but the fact remains that a large number of businesses continued doing business as usual throughout the pandemic. Place an order from Amazon for example and it will arrive in roughly the normal time span. Beyond the first month or two of the pandemic last year, delays have been the exception rather than the norm in my experience. The places that have managed to avoid major hiccups are booming.
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Amazon is different. There isn't really the equivalent of buying one 0803 capacitor. They are sold in whatever quantity the vendor has prepacked them. In contrast, someone at Mouser has to find the reel or tray or whatever bulk supply the capacitors come in, extract just one, repackage it, label it etc. It's not just a simple case of pulling an item off a shelf and throwing it in a box.
TimFox:
In the US, according to its website, Mouser has three locations: Texas, California, and New Jersey.
Amazon has five fulfillment centers in Texas alone, out of 110 in the entire country.
alank2:
Mouser told me that they only ship from their TX location.
I placed an order on 2/19 (after the storm and when things were warming up). They still did not ship until 3/1 and I got it on 3/2. They did at least not charge me shipping, but wow it was late.
james_s:
--- Quote from: JohnnyMalaria on March 09, 2021, 09:43:11 pm ---Amazon is different. There isn't really the equivalent of buying one 0803 capacitor. They are sold in whatever quantity the vendor has prepacked them. In contrast, someone at Mouser has to find the reel or tray or whatever bulk supply the capacitors come in, extract just one, repackage it, label it etc. It's not just a simple case of pulling an item off a shelf and throwing it in a box.
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That doesn't matter, most people don't analyze it to that level, you said you don't get why people expect things to be business as usual and I provided an answer, I never said there are not valid reasons.
That said, despite my gripes with their website, I've placed several orders from Digikey throughout the pandemic and never experienced any delays that I noticed.
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