Intel C1101A

Noel Chiappa jnc at mercury.lcs.mit.edu
Tue Dec 6 10:06:17 CST 2016


    > From: Mark Moulding

    > I did a bulk buy of some 1960's era miniature vacuum tubes (500 pcs)
    > for around 50 cents each; the next time I looked, the price from all
    > vendors who had them had jumped to around $3

There is another possibility (one which I think I saw happening when Guy and
I were buying DS8641's, which we previously discussed here), which is that if
multiple vendors have stock, an initial order might buy up the ones with the
cheapest price, and a second order will wind up being met from a different
dealer's stock, one with a higher price.

	Noel


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