[sdiy] this chip shortage thing is crazy...

[Loscha]

I got 100 transistors on eBay many years ago.
Same thing -- individually sealed in non anti-static bags.
There were, however, exactly 100 transistors.
I was expecting them to be on a bandolier, as they were purchased as a lot
of 100 at a time on eBay.

On Fri, 21 May 2021 at 21:07, Richie Burnett <rburnett at richieburnett.co.uk>
wrote:

> > Looks like they swiped the floor in every warehouse to find them...
>
> (>.<)  I feel your pain!
>
> The worst I ever got was 1000 green 3mm LEDs (ordered to re-stock a
> teaching
> lab).  They arrived in 5 boxes.  Each box contained several big plastic
> bags, and inside those were the LEDs.  Every LED in it's own little heat
> sealed plastic bag.  Many of which were actually on the wrong side of the
> heat sealing line and had subsequently fell out.  It took the technician
> the
> best part of an afternoon with a Stanley knife slitting all the bags open
> and tipping the LEDs out.  And then there was a mountain of plastic to
> dispose of!
>
> -Richie,
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Roman Sowa
> Sent: Friday, May 21, 2021 11:45 AM
> To: Synth-diy at synth-diy.org
> Subject: [sdiy] this chip shortage thing is crazy...
>
> Today I have received one of my orders from Microchip placed in March.
> One part number, but I got it in 9 bags! Each contains chips from
> different batch with different traceability code so I can understand why
> they are separate, but it's still crazy. The bags contain between 7 to
> 180 chips. And those are full size 50x20 bags to fit regular tubes.
> Imagine seven SSOP20 chips in a big bag.
> Looks like they swiped the floor in every warehouse to find them...
>
> It was also great fun to watch them change scheduled shippment date. At
> the time of ordering they were in stock, so yes, I took them all. Next
> they've sent me like 10 emails changing delivery date all over the place
> between April 2021 and August 2022.
> But I finally got them, yay!
> Still a couple more orders expected anytime between tomorrow and summer
> 2022.
>
> Roman
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