Farnell delivery

[G6Tanuki]

Originally Posted by Radio Wrangler

You may want the confidence of using an approved supplier for commonly faked components, though. It costs more money up-front, but then you reduce the risk of collateral damage, wasted time and the frustration of diagnosis of the problems caused. It depends on how you value time and frustration.

David

Indeed! The cheap-and-cheerful Ebay/Alibaba tat-bazaar is all very well but how many of them do proper authenticatable parts-traceability?

Parts are cheap; my time isn't. I'm happy to spend a bit more to source parts that - if they fail and cause damage (either actual or reputational) I can send a nastygram to their QA department, CC'd to the QA-accreditation auditors they identify on their website.

In times-past this has got a rather-rapid response!

One of my onetime colleagues who was of Japanese heritage had a nice term:

"Cheap is too expensive to mention here"