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Why all the no stock at Digikey and stock at Rochester Electronics
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Analog:
So many components are out of stock at Digikey however the "Market Place" link shows them in stock at Rochester Electronics. This is new. Anyone know what is going on? I wouldn't expect to see Mouser stock showing from a Digikey link so I assume the Rochester and Digikey are somehow related. For the record I've bought from Rochester with no issues.
langwadt:
afaiu Rochester is basically buying up old production lines and manufacturing "EOL" stuff and being  second source for other stuff

it might be that int he current situation manufacturers are not allowing distributors to buy stuff to stock it, but instead must order as they sell it
tom66:
I'm wondering this too.  The Rochester parts are generally competitively priced though, so I'm not too worried.  Perhaps they have better arrangements with the manufacturers or are good at getting overstock / bankrupt stock.
Berni:
Yep Rochester is in the business of keeping old obsolete parts available by running production runs of them or just buying up a huge sock when they go obsolete.

They seam to have signed a deal with Digikey that they can sell there inventory in there online store. The problem is mostly that they have pretty high minimum order quantities in the 100s, so it is not a suitable for prototype runs.

Luckily there is a checkbox in the search to exclude these so called marketplace products.
Benta:

--- Quote from: Berni on July 06, 2022, 06:55:15 pm ---
They seam to have signed a deal with Digikey that they can sell there inventory in there online store. The problem is mostly that they have pretty high minimum order quantities in the 100s, so it is not a suitable for prototype runs.

--- End quote ---

Why on earth would you make a prototype run with obsolete parts? Just curious.
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