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Re: [motm] **IMPORTANT** Massive price hike on pots

2007-05-22 by Ben Stuyts

On 22 May 2007, at 21:58, Paul Schreiber wrote:

> Vishay has raised the price of the 148/149 pots (the older black  
> ones, newer
> ones are white) from $3.85ea to $12.25 ea.
>
> This is NOT a misprint. They raised the price **THREE F-ING  
> TIMES**. Oh, and a
> 16 to 18 week delivery.

I'd take that as an insult and never use them again. Did that with  
Maxim when they tripled the price/delivery time of a LED driver (7219  
I believe) on one of our designs a couple of years ago.

Don't any of their distributors have stock at reasonable prices to  
help you in the short term?

Paul, what will the impact of this be on the pre-MOTM2.0 kit orders?

Ben

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