Does this happen to anybody else?
I placed an order with Newark everything showed in stock. Later during the night I check whether it was shipped and they show my 10uf MLCC's caps are on back order with a fifty day lead time.
This is the second time in a row this has happened. I've dealt with Newark for three years now and never had this happen until the last two orders it's getting to be a PITA.
What did they hire a new bean counter fresh out of school or something.
Lag between receipt of order and picking. Somebody in line in front of you took the lot?
Dumb software that updates stock only when it's picked.
Yes, it's happened to me, many times, over years.
did the web site say it was out of stock as well. Ive seen some websites say its in stock until you order then hope you'll wait.
anything to get the business in these hard times.
Nope the site showed they had them. I dont buy anything unless they have it in stock. I dont rember the exact quantity but it was at least a couple hundred.
-- Beware of businesses that claim to have stock..
They run you through the whole billing process just to find out at E-mail confirmation time, they don't have half of the stock available to ship and indicates a waiting time beyond reality!.. And try to cancel the order! there are lots of small time hole in the wall parts suppliers out there pulling this stunt because they don't have the money to stock themselves, but gamble on getting it somewhere else while they have your money as an insurance of payment.
And normally, multiple shipping charges when the parts finally arrive in segments.
I meant after you ordered and they toldyou they were out of stock. does the web page still say they have it in stock.
Thats an OLD trick.
Nope now its showing zero inventory.
It happened before they admitted their error. I dont think a large distro like Newark AKA farnell is going to do a scam. If they want you to buy more they just send out Vouchers ;).
I think the inventory tracking software sucks. Which is why I'm now leary of buying anything there that they show stock quantity under a hundred.
The search engine paremetric features is pretty pathetic to it leaves out half the stuff.
They added an error reporting feature to there web site which is a good idea. I already reported a few things,and they corrected them in about a week.
Have you looked at the Mouser website lately? Their online catalog is now in MS Silverlight. What a pathetic pile of crap.
What the he.. is "Silverlight"? another M$ PileOfCrap? I saw that on the Mouser site as i buy a lot from them; did not fall for it as it seemed to be flash-like garbage = = unusable as i am on dial-up.
Yup. Linux advocates call it "Silver-Lie" as in "M$ promises it is compatible".
Yup--except that it is incompatible with all platforms other than M$'s latest crap.
Yup. More wasted bandwidth.
There is a Fifth Column guy who claims he's a Linux advocate who is pushing an "open" version of this proprietary crap.
--after M$ gets the suckers to embrace it.
Mouser joins the other high-profile morons who were already bought off by M$ and their proprietary scam.
Some of the online radio stations want you to use it, as well. I tried it on two computers and it crippled both, just like I expected. needless to say, it was yanked and all traces cleaned off both drives. Of course, they pop up a screen insisting that I install Silverlight to listen to WSM, before letting me use WMA W/Windows Media Player which isn't as invasive, but why don't they just stream in a common format?
Gotta get your weekly Opry fix? 8-)
Amen. Traditional media companies are circling the bowl. This s*it just shows how out of touch they are apparently not aware of the multitude of other places folks can get content without the nonsense.
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Prunt! Don't like getting called?
Damn, we are talking Newark/Farnell here. Not your favorite=20 cheapie fly-by-night.
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They may be giving their contract programmers a choice slice of hell of = late.
Opry? I stream WSM almost 24/7. I am now 100% disabled and at home about 95% of the time. Local radio sucks. A dozen clear channel clones, and a couple so called 'Modern Country' radio stations that don't even know who Earnest Tubb, patsy Cline or Bob Wills are.
WSM started streaming with Broadcast.com. They had a free dialup stream, or a paid broadband stereo stream. Then 'Yahoo's bought it and screwed it up. They went with another streaming media service that died. The next was OK, but was bought out, and trashed. The current one is OK, but isn't interested in providing streams for older software.
Seems to work OK with ordinary Windows Media Player. ...Jim Thompson
Yes, that's what I'm using, but they want you to jump through hoops every time you use it. It tends to drop the conection a lot more with WMP, as well.
If you use Silverlight it starts automatically.
I have found a workaround. Windows Media Player works with Firefox, so I leave it open when I shut down the computer. Then I restart the previous Firefox session when I fire it back up.
One of the streaming media boxes claims to handle WMP, but I don't have the $200 to try it.
I'll try it on my Roku Soundbridge. ...Jim Thompson
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