12 Aug
2012
12 Aug
'12
9:42 p.m.
On Aug 12, 2012, at 9:30 PM, Al Kossow wrote:
On 8/12/12 9:13 PM, Dave McGuire wrote:
There is Excess Solutions in Milpitas. It's way better than Halted these days. All
these places are going the way of the dodo. They will even admit it if you ask. There is
no manufacturing left in the valley so no surplus. Excess has still got a huge stock of
everything while Halted feels like they are running out of everything.
Brick-and-mortar stores are WAY overrated. (and
dying)
I went to three different stores to buy a piece of perf board, and ended
up getting a used one at Halted (with Haltek printed on it!). The section
at Frys was completely empty at the Palo Alto and Sunnyvale store.
I can get it from dozens of places on line, if I wanted to wait a couple
of days and pay shipping, though I probably spent more than that on gas.
I was just complaining on Saturday that the price for things like wire-wrap
sockets have tripled in the last couple of years, if you can even find them.
The parts stocks in the valley surplus places are drying up. Halted was
completely out of stock of 9 through 25 pin D connectors. This is bad news