[sdiy] Dealing with China

[Dave Kendall]

Is it that the larger distributors (like LCSC for example) have a good rep, but that smaller suppliers are more likely to sell B stock, rejects and fakes ?
What have people’s experiences been ?

I’m looking to source some through-hole components that are getting harder to find - DACs and 74HC mostly.

I  only have limited experience of buying mechanical parts from China so far (connectors mostly), but have seen a lot of comments and negative reviews criticising eBay and AliExpress vendors selling ICs.

Dave

> On 14 Dec 2023, at 13:13, Mike Bryant <mbryant at futurehorizons.com> wrote:
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> 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.
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> https://www.crowdsupply.com/machinery-enchantress/the-new-essential-guide-to-electronics-in-shenzhen <https://www.crowdsupply.com/machinery-enchantress/the-new-essential-guide-to-electronics-in-shenzhen>
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> 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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