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Experience with PCBWay
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ciccio:
I've used PCBway for 5 orders, and I'm sure  I'll do again.
I never experienced a quality problem,  and their service is amazing.
My Gerber files had some errors (my fault), but they discovered the errors and with the exchange of some e-mail it was solved (between friday evening and monday morning, somebody was there working even on sunday)  and there was no delay in delivery.

DHL is very expensive, and the most expensive part are  custom duties (calculated By DHL on imaginary costs) and DHL broker's service. On my last orders they asked about 31 Euros total (plus the 31 US$ I paid to PCBway for delivery).

Next order I'll use CHINA POST e-packet.

Best regards

Cloud:
I've received PCBs from a lot more expensive PCB fabs that have been repaired. PCBway is great for quick prototypes but for more critical PCBs I stick to eurocircuits (from time to time I have to send angry email to them but 95% they are perfect)
floobydust:
PCB houses often send extra boards that are duds or have been "repaired". It's not a crime.
When I've asked the "what for?", I'm told these boards can be useful for manufacturing to try out, prototyping sections of the circuit, mechanical to try in enclosures etc. so they send them instead of discarding them. You still get the correct count of flawless PCB's that you ordered.

This is even with high-end North American PCB fab houses. I don't think it says anything about the quality.
SiliconWizard:

--- Quote from: Cloud on January 28, 2019, 01:09:47 pm ---PCBway is great for quick prototypes but for more critical PCBs I stick to eurocircuits (from time to time I have to send angry email to them but 95% they are perfect)

--- End quote ---

I've used Eurocircuits a lot and never had any problem. Good stuff.

Whereas Eurocircuits is in the "low-cost zone" for an european manufacturer, it's definitely much more expensive than PCBWay. Even for the basic options. Not even talking about if you need anything "special" like a 0.8mm PCB. Then it becomes awfully expensive. The standard actual turnaround time is also significantly shorter with PCBWay. 5 days from ordering to received (week-end included), with the standard, non-express option. The same is around 8 days with Eurocircuits, sometimes a bit more.

So yeah, for quick prototypes, PCBWay is hard to beat. For production, it may be another story depending on your quality requirements.
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