[sdiy] Board sales rant (was The Dreaded ROHS)

[John Mahoney]

At 04:16 PM 2/16/2009, Dan Snazelle wrote:
>[snip]
>also...one final issue.
>
>many people who sell pcbs say they will ONLY produce them if they 
>get enough people to buy them. (which makes sense) SO that drives 
>many of us to buy more pcbs because we dont want to see that 
>favorite project of ours NOT made...even if we have a backlog. 
>without people keeping a backlog, many of these projects might never 
>have a customer base.
>[snip]

Good point, Dan. I've been known to purchase boards in such cases.

I've also purchased boards with full knowledge that they'd sit on the 
shelf indefinitely because I knew there was only a single chance. 
"Now or never", as the saying goes.

John