Inventory shenanigans at TI - Page 1
Forum section: electronics / general

author: KE5FX
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: February 26, 2023, 04:23:47 am
content: I'd like to hear from people who have a TI account, and who can spare a couple of minutes to try to put some LMX2594s in their shopping carts. If you're able to try this, please post the outcome below.When I do that, I get the usual"Out of stock" result.When a colleague in Canada does it, he is allowed to order up to 25,with 2285 showing in inventory.I can think of various explanations for this, ranging from mildly annoying to infuriating.

author: tooki
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: February 26, 2023, 11:00:25 am
content: I wouldn’t read too much into it: I think the site is acting up. At first, trying to load the LMX2594 product page just got me a 404 error. Now it’s loading. Shows me zero stock.Loading the page for the eval module (LMX2594EVM) works, but the stock info is all messed up: it says TI has two, Digi-Key has 18, and Mouser has 71. But clicking the Digi-Key and Mouser links instead links to their pages for a completely different product (a microcontroller eval kit), but that’s not where the 18 and 71 come from, because Digi-Key and Mouser have 1 and 47 pieces of the MCU kit in stock, respectively. Meanwhile, searching Digi-Key and Mouser for LMX2594EVM shows they both have zero stock.Or maybe your friend has a special account status that lets them order “hidden” stock, much the way Analog Devices will supply small amounts of samples of sold-out products, meaning that they do actually have stock, but have blocked it from normal sale.P.S. In the future, I suggest nor pluralizing part numbers, because at first I copied ”LMX2594s” into the ti.com search box and of course found nothing. Yeah, when we speak such a number out loud we can easily pluralize it, but since a trailing “s” is completely possible in part numbers (unlike in other pluralized numbers like years (1920s, for example)), it becomes ambiguous.

author: TassiloH
author_rank: Regular Contributor
timestamp: February 26, 2023, 11:01:16 am
content: Account from Germany: Shows out of stock for both variants.

author: AndyC_772
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: February 26, 2023, 11:09:05 am
content: Out of stock for me too (UK).

author: tooki
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: February 26, 2023, 11:26:26 am
content: Maybe everyone here can also include whether they have been approved for samples ordering from TI.Me: no. Applied for samples privilege but was declined.

author: tom66
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: February 26, 2023, 11:29:55 am
content: About a year ago we got an email that a certain part had gone into stock (3000pcs), showed on the TI website, had card in hand to buy the 20pcs we needed and as soon as we went to purchase the purchase failed. Kept refreshing and stock showed at 3000pcs for hours, but eventually dropped to zero. Their inventory control system is wacky.

author: thm_w
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: February 28, 2023, 12:01:05 am
content: Shows as Out of Stock.Lots of grey market available:https://octopart.com/lmx2594rhar-texas+instruments-78412952?r=spQuote from: tooki on February 26, 2023, 11:26:26 amApproved, years ago. But I do remember some odd thing where I had the account already and it made me re-apply.Also the sample limit is very low now, 1pc for expensive IC's ($10+), 5pc for cheap stuff.