[sdiy] Buying Parts from Questionable Sites

Shawn Rakestraw shawn at epicpoolsga.com
Sun Jun 12 23:18:22 CEST 2022


I should have been more specific. I was specifically looking at a Canadian
supplier called Component Electronics, which OctoPart linked to.
www.componentonline.com

I checked LCSC, AliExpress, and win-source just now and none have stock.

Thanks for the suggestions though.

On Sun, Jun 12, 2022 at 1:58 PM Chris McDowell via Synth-diy <
synth-diy at synth-diy.org> wrote:

> can second that win-source and LCSC have always been reliable for me.
>
> > On Jun 12, 2022, at 12:53 PM, Vladimir Pantelic via Synth-diy <
> synth-diy at synth-diy.org> wrote:
> >
> > FWIW I bought from Win-Source several times and so far the ICs all look
> genuine and work (STM32...)
> >
> >
> > On 6/12/22 7:47 PM, Mike Bryant wrote:
> >> Is the supplier on Alibaba/AliExpress/Amazon ?   If so no risk as they
> have full protection if it’s either faulty, fraudulent or doesn’t arrive.
> >> But I wouldn’t trust the ones on eBay, etc only.
> >> LCSC is also trustworthy as a Chinese distributor
> >> *From:*Synth-diy [mailto:synth-diy-bounces at synth-diy.org] *On Behalf
> Of *Shawn Rakestraw via Synth-diy
> >> *Sent:* 12 June 2022 18:42
> >> *To:* SYNTH DIY
> >> *Subject:* [sdiy] Buying Parts from Questionable Sites
> >> Hey All,
> >> I have a diy project I would like to do and in the past I almost
> exclusively use Mouser for most of my components. There is a specific
> resistor network that is out of stock everywhere, but when I look at
> octopart, there are "unauthorized dealers" that seem to have a supply of
> them. I am a little nervous about buying from them though.
> >> The component in question is EXB-E10C103J and I would likely only buy
> about 25 of them.
> >> If anyone with more experience buying components could let me know
> where they would trust getting them from, I would be very appreciative.
> >> Thanks,
> >> Shawn
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