24 Feb
2009
24 Feb
'09
11:16 a.m.
Date: Mon, 23 Feb 2009 21:03:22 -0500 (EST)
From: Steven Hirsch <snhirsch at gmail.com>
The 571 seems to be pure unobtanium, unless you
count 50 hits of *&ssholes who want you to submit an RFQ and won't deal
under $250 a shot.
Does anyone know why those businesses operate that way? Why not just
post a price list? A line item on their RFQs is always "Target Price".
Well, honestly, my target price is 0, of course. I know I won't hit it,
but that's what I'd like. I'm certainly not interested in telling them
there is a floor to the price they can offer me.
And how is it more profitable to them to let this stuff sit in (costly)
storage somewhere, rather than selling fifty pieces to someone who could
use them?
I've been hunting WD92C32 for a long while and they all seem to be in the
hands of *those* people. About once a year I do another search, and the
quantity available listings never change. There's plenty of them out
there, doing nothing, but try getting your hands on any for less than $5
each. The total value of the thing I want to build is probably $15 so
spending $5 on one component is ridiculous.
Jeff Walther