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

[David Ingebretsen]

Got anything interesting you want to sell in that "sit on the shelf
indefinitely" catagoty?....

:)

David

David M. Ingebretsen M.S., M.E.
Collision Forensics & Engineering, Inc.
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Salt Lake City, UT 84121
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-----Original Message-----
From: synth-diy-bounces at dropmix.xs4all.nl
[mailto:synth-diy-bounces at dropmix.xs4all.nl] On Behalf Of John Mahoney
Sent: Monday, February 16, 2009 6:33 PM
To: synth-diy at dropmix.xs4all.nl
Subject: RE: [sdiy] Board sales rant (was The Dreaded ROHS)

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

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