Bulk Buying

[Austin73]

Hi Everyone,

Just a quick thought and a bit OT (feel free to  move later), I've been on the Midi Project site (the one with the CORE modules) and whilst on their forum I noticed they have a topic called Bulk Buying where someone posts that they can get a job lot of components and did anybody want to chip in. Seemed a really good idea. I know a few chaps on here do it already but alot of us miss these bargains so just wondered if we could set one up?

Not sure how hard that would be or if anybody would be interested but worth a try

Cheers for reading

Aus

[Sack Puppet]

It's a good idea Aus, great for common useful part and hard to find stuff.

Not sure how you'd organize it though - region specific maybe?

Prices are always a problem too.

A thought struck there for surplus stuff too for example, say I had 5000 120k 1% resistors, or another box of 5000 odd value things that are close enough to common values to be useful (funny I should say that), I'll never use them in a lifetime and they take up a lot of space.
So I might be happy to pull out a bandolier of a hundred and post them for a consideration that would cover my basic cost yet be large enough to deter those of that personality type from throwing them on ebay if they were free/cheap.

I'm talking about more expensive components than 120k resistors btw.

You'd need a decent database that would be easy to search and update, and a lot of time and effort on your hands though I think for that.

Or maybe not.  It could be as well to approach Aron about creating say, a nested subset of the for sale/trade directory entitled "Bulk buying" or something more original and "Surplus to Requirements" - I don't know.

Whether it's worth the effort to save a few shillings I don't know either.

Don't know much tonight

S.