Utmel electronics any good to order from? - Page 1
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author: Rat_Patrol
author_rank: Frequent Contributor
timestamp: December 29, 2021, 08:36:56 pm
content: Title says it all. The IC I need is between them and Win Source :/

author: Rat_Patrol
author_rank: Frequent Contributor
timestamp: December 31, 2021, 08:22:24 pm
content: Well, took a chance and lost.I bought 4000 of the chips I needed for 34 cents each. Great.Emailed me the next day: Oh, we can't sell you those chips for that price. The price if you want them is now $1.46 each.They offered the options of a refund or giving them a LOT more money, took the refund option (see how that goes).I guess they can go on my shit list now.

author: Mangozac
author_rank: Frequent Contributor
timestamp: January 03, 2022, 11:33:38 pm
content: At this point I think it's safest to assume that all brokers are dishonest thieves and go in expecting to pay 10x whatever the advertised price is.

author: 48X24X48X
author_rank: Frequent Contributor
timestamp: January 04, 2022, 12:40:54 am
content: I won't be shocked if a few of them are own by the same person.It looks like stocks lead time are getting even worst.Just a week ago, everything on Microchip-direct seems to go well beyond 2023 for example.TI stocks seems to fill in from time to time with some scalper seems to buy most of the lots of the market.

author: SMTech
author_rank: Frequent Contributor
timestamp: January 04, 2022, 02:45:30 pm
content: Our "shit list" covers all sorts of TI, AD/LT, lots of Microchip (PICs), some of the more niche smaller brand semis and DCDC converters regardless of manufacturer. Passives seem mostly OK, with alternatives available even if the normal part is not. One thing we have certainly found tho' is suppliers getting stock they don't seem to be expecting*, this doesn't always get allocated to back orders as it should so we have to watch supplier stock level carefully and use their website or back office staff to grab/allocate stuff their system hasn't done.We've used brokers for years for certain types of purchasing, periods of shortage make them very rich but for the most part they can be trusted, they can and do quote on the same stock from their networks, partly because that's how the world works these days and also because an awful lot of them have the same contacts as they have all worked for each other. There are several in the UK for instance that were setup by people who worked at Cyclops and no doubt others who have sprouted from those, many of them will be official distributor for a couple of niche/random things too. I think we've used Winsource once, recently, the price was fine, they shipped very quickly and there was no funny business, but it was nothing exciting or high value. I have no idea what the Winsource game is some are seeing but I suspect they have a price set by the system and when a "sale" comes through they double check the market and adjust it accordingly. We have some excess stock brokers were interested in from a failed project and in some cases the numbers being thrown around were pretty crazy, nothing happened, yet, so I'm guessing someone somewhere in the chain was getting too greedy.