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On Mar 1, 2009, at 4:43 PM, Richard Brewster wrote:
> I've found good wire on EBay at reasonable prices.

yes. i'm sure most of it is a good idea.

however, stay away from Emtel Electronics or ASAPWire. they run (or  
ran) a lot of wire auctions.

i bought 3 1000' spools of 24 AWG stranded wire (black, purple, and  
orange) from them in December of 2007. ordered it, package arrived  
OK, i opened it up and the purple spool had broken in transit. a  
broken spool of wire is not totally useless, but is only useful if  
you can deal with it being a huge PITA, and would be completely  
useless if i were using an automatic wire strip/cut machine.

i don't think it was packed into the box broken. there was no packing  
material whatsoever in this box. just three heavy spools of wire.

i have attempted to contact them 5 times via email about this, and  
have never received a reply. i also tried calling the phone number  
that was on the UPS tag and it was some angry old lady that didn't  
know what the hell ASAP Wire was.
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