[sdiy] Dealing with China

[Mike Bryant]

I've got all my established contacts and find them excellent, but I still see comments here obviously not trusting Chinese suppliers and paying over the odds instead to suppliers who probably get their supplies from China anyway.

Even if you don't buy the book, it's well worth watching this video just to appreciate the scale of the Shenzhen market and how it totally dwarfs anything in the West.  There's also huge warehouses backing up these operations which she doesn't show, and of course all the PCB manufacturers and assemblers.

https://www.crowdsupply.com/machinery-enchantress/the-new-essential-guide-to-electronics-in-shenzhen

In over 20 years of buying thousands of packages from China, I've had one faulty set of ICs due to bad packaging, and two counterfeits.  All three refunded.



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