Have mammothelectronics gone under?

[vigilante397]

In summary, they're benefiting by pulling in orders with their statements of reasonable shipping times, and not delivering what they advertise.  There has been a lot of rationalizing with "backorders happen," but really this company just needs to get its act together.

My last order with Mouser had a backorder unexpectedly; I received notification of it via email, called them, and it was resolved that day.  Simple.

My first order with Bitches Love My Switches shipped when they said it would (website advised me of a NAMM-related delay I was fine with, albeit a little jealous of) and there were zero issues.

This is not some sort of "act of God" a company cannot prepare for—this is poor management.  Not coincidentally, read the Glassdoor reviews for the company.  Glassdoor requires a grain of salt or two, but the picture is clear.

+1

I understand that it can be hard for small outfits to keep up with bigger ones, but that's capitalism. If you can't do something better than or at least as well as your competitors, you won't get business.

[pinkjimiphoton]

many of my friends are having way more issues/expense sourcing things than sans the buffoon in chief lummoxing his way
onto the world stage in many different industries,  and its patently ridiculous.

yes, they did say the same thing at mammoth i've encountered myself. higher prices, less availability, longer delays.
its all @#$%ing bullshit ultimately, and could have been avoided.

reminds me of when the feds raided gibson over fingerboard blanks a couple mm too thick. when gibson said they needed them that thick, and the country they sourced from were ok with it, the feds replied to gibson to move that branch of the operation overseas. you can't make this shit up.

idiots tend to think they are genius. i remain unimpressed.  all i see, as a VERY small business, is more of a squeeze than previously experienced.

i remember when america was great, on its way to the united federation of planets rather than idiocracy.

not giving mammoth a pass... they admitted readily to the mistake, and knew instantly who and what i was calling about, so they did figure it out.
things happen.

hopefully now, its all sorted out and they can grow into a vibrant and thriving company. despite all the pitfalls ensnaring us from the vapidity of yet another fool appointed leader by people presumably similar in stilted viewpoint.

[pinkjimiphoton]

further, please remember, small businesses can be made or broken irrevocably by internet butthurt,
i have seen it repeatedly over the years.

its like zappa's last tour. i forget who, but someone in the band gotta bug up their ass about scott thunes, who's a monster bassist and a hell of a nice guy.  eventually the one person's ill will poisoned the entire band to the point that when zappa heard about it, shortly before the beginning of the tour, he had to cancel, as to replace scott would be impossible at that point in time, due to the substantial monetary and time investments made by FZ, who was in severely failing health and quite sick at that time.
so he cancelled the tour.

not long after, remorseful the tour was cancelled, the band recanted... man, that scott guy, he's ok...

i had a similar thing in my main band recently, with an old singer from a side project poisoning the well between my new drummer and one of our other guitarists <we have three guitars, bass, keys and drums>

the drummer was gonna leave cuz he couldn't stand the guy. what ev.  a couple gigs happened with just the core of the band... me, bass, drummer and rhythm guy. band sounded so good, the drummer figured out our old singer was manipulating the hell out of him. now all is good. its ridiculous what a little bit of bad press blown up can turn into.

just sayin'

yes, they screwed up. every single freeking vendor on the planet has screwed up. they ARE aware, and ARE trying to make it right. 

is the world a better place to forgive, or forget about? me? i'd rather give a mother@#$%er another chance wherever possible, cuz, after all the deals they do daily, and all of us they keep in ther driver's seat, i think the world's a better place for small businesses even with their shortcomings.

walmart is great. til ya need an ac187. don't be a wallmartian. be cognizant and intelligent and realize none of us are or ever will be perfect. same goes here in this case.

is it better to support these small fringe businesses that keep us in obsolete parts, or do we let them slide off into the sunset?

does butthurt trump accidents?

not here. but ymmv.

[Mark Hammer]

idiots tend to think they are genius.

When you have a chance, jimi, look up the Dunning-Kruger effect (sometimes found under Kruger-Dunning).  It'll make sense of everything.

[njkmonty]

When you have a chance, jimi, look up the Dunning-Kruger effect (sometimes found under Kruger-Dunning).  It'll make sense of everything.

i was watching a us politcs thing the other day referencing that!   
cnn?  or was it msnbc?

i cant remember which current US president they were referring to? 


the more you know the more more you know you dont know?

[thermionix]

 

[pinkjimiphoton]

everything is trumps fault, pretty much. harder to get stuff, more expensive, means more bullshit us little guys
gotta go thru, more hoops to jump thru, more stress, and yes, more mistakes being made.
if you support that asshat, that says things about ya i don't even want to know. sad. i'll forget about that part so it doesn't taint my view, i find it very hard to be understanding of folks who could possibly support the crap this present adminidefenestration has pooted all over the world.
never thought dubya would look good to me. i miss that guy by comparison.
and to think i was a lifelong middle of the road lincoln-esque REPUBLICAN.
now i'm a leftist libtard. funny thing, i never have changed my views.
no fan here, ever. and watching him f' up the nation isn't particularly rewarding.
we're supposed to tear down walls.
building bridges is a far  better occupation.
and last i knew, americans stood united against fascism and national socialism,
we'd be making america greater by returning to that stance.
ANYways.

mark... thanks sir, will be sure to read up on it. i know i've seen the term before.

i like "grandiose insignificance" as a descriptive term in this case.
stick a fork in me.

i'll stand with the soldiers, and homeless, and children, and elderly, and women, and immigrants, and gays and other such unwanted, and stand UP for them, too. every time. this is america.
founded on land stolen from natives. supposedly home to all who seek freedom.

us (in my case, partial) native americans would prefer if all this stupidity would stop. ask us about how much you can
trust these idiots first hand.  children are not the enemy. women are not the enemy. people fleeing from oppression and murder are looking for help. they're not criminals or invaders.
its akin to banging on a neighbor's door in the middle of the nite seeking help. you gonna be an american, stand up, throw your damn hat in the ring and do something to help, or be another self obsessed fool turning others in need away?

think about it standing in the other guy's shoes.

if capable.

thats it. yep, i am a libtard goddamned democratic socialist who opposes marxist socialism, national socialism, and that most pervasive and plentiful of elements in this universe, stupidity.

now stick that fork in a bit deeper.
#Resist
#DontTreadOnMe

us swamp yankees have a peculiar way of looking at stuff. ymmv.

what the @#$% happened?

[pinkjimiphoton]

Mark...
NAILED IT.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dunning%E2%80%93Kruger_effect

"In the field of psychology, the Dunning–Kruger effect is a cognitive bias in which people of low ability have illusory superiority and mistakenly assess their cognitive ability as greater than it is. The cognitive bias of illusory superiority comes from the inability of low-ability people to recognize their lack of ability. Without the self-awareness of metacognition, low-ability people cannot objectively evaluate their competence or incompetence.[1]

As described by social psychologists David Dunning and Justin Kruger, the cognitive bias of illusory superiority results from an internal illusion in people of low ability and from an external misperception in people of high ability; that is, "the miscalibration of the incompetent stems from an error about the self, whereas the miscalibration of the highly competent stems from an error about others."[1] "

[thermionix]

 

[njkmonty]

So not everyone is a crazy in USA!
for a moment i thought everyone over there was nuts.
but you are not alone,  we have a billionaire nut job over here using trumps playbook to line his own pockets by doofing the ignorant!
how does Mitch McConnell, ted cruz, mike pence ,Lindsey Graham and the like get in??? who votes for these people??
we have compulsory voting over here,
Ive only recently become familiarised with the terms "Gerrymandering and Voter suppression" since  watching american news,
and government shutdowns!!  what the smeg??  no such thing in Australia!

From a distance it is really like watching season 3 of "House of tosspots!)

everything is trumps fault, pretty much. harder to get stuff, more expensive, means more bullshit us little guys
gotta go thru, more hoops to jump thru, more stress, and yes, more mistakes being made.
if you support that asshat, that says things about ya i don't even want to know. sad. i'll forget about that part so it doesn't taint my view, i find it very hard to be understanding of folks who could possibly support the crap this present adminidefenestration has pooted all over the world.
never thought dubya would look good to me. i miss that guy by comparison.
and to think i was a lifelong middle of the road lincoln-esque REPUBLICAN.
now i'm a leftist libtard. funny thing, i never have changed my views.
no fan here, ever. and watching him f' up the nation isn't particularly rewarding.
we're supposed to tear down walls.
building bridges is a far  better occupation.
and last i knew, americans stood united against fascism and national socialism,
we'd be making america greater by returning to that stance.
ANYways.

mark... thanks sir, will be sure to read up on it. i know i've seen the term before.

i like "grandiose insignificance" as a descriptive term in this case.
stick a fork in me.

i'll stand with the soldiers, and homeless, and children, and elderly, and women, and immigrants, and gays and other such unwanted, and stand UP for them, too. every time. this is america.
founded on land stolen from natives. supposedly home to all who seek freedom.

us (in my case, partial) native americans would prefer if all this stupidity would stop. ask us about how much you can
trust these idiots first hand.  children are not the enemy. women are not the enemy. people fleeing from oppression and murder are looking for help. they're not criminals or invaders.
its akin to banging on a neighbor's door in the middle of the nite seeking help. you gonna be an american, stand up, throw your damn hat in the ring and do something to help, or be another self obsessed fool turning others in need away?

think about it standing in the other guy's shoes.

if capable.

thats it. yep, i am a libtard goddamned democratic socialist who opposes marxist socialism, national socialism, and that most pervasive and plentiful of elements in this universe, stupidity.

now stick that fork in a bit deeper.
#Resist
#DontTreadOnMe

us swamp yankees have a peculiar way of looking at stuff. ymmv.

what the @#$% happened?
Report

[duck_arse]

Ive only recently become familiarised with the terms "Gerrymandering and Voter suppression" since  watching american news,
and government shutdowns!!  what the smeg??  no such thing in Australia!

njk - know your history, learn from it. have you ever heard of Queensland? Joh Bjelke Petersen? clive is also a qld'r, doing so much for his people.

[njkmonty]

fitzgerald inquiry???


he was involved in  Joh Bjelke-Petersen  campaign!



Queensland Nickel and townsville , coolum resort owners etc may have a different opinion about him

[EBK]

I'll just drop this image here (I could have put it in the jokes thread, but we could use some humor here as well  ).  Every time I see the name "Mammoth", I think of this. 

[garcho]

Dumb Donald has enough attention, let's not give him any more please. Maybe he's like a house plant that you forget about for a while and then you find it later and it's dead, wouldn't that be nice?
Politics and DIY forums mix about as well as beer and toothpaste. I'd hate to accidentally read some right wingers' opinions about political issues, and they would really hate to read mine, so let's not wake the beast, eh?

I have never once had a problem with:
Small Bear
Mouser

I find the money you save going with others becomes money wasted when you have to deal with not getting your order, getting the wrong order, getting poorly made electromechanical stuff, getting out of spec ICs, etc. the price difference is usually minimal anyway. If you're building pedals, just admit that you're an addict; you're going to need stock. If the shipping freaks you out for some reason just wait and order a bigger order, getting bit by bit until you finally have enough to build your Klone or whatever is not a smart way to go about building stuff.

[Mark Hammer]

I shouldn't confess to it so openly, but when the kids were younger, I had to watch a lot of Powerpuff Girls.  I'm not proud of it.

It seemed every episode of PPG began with a Don Pardo-like announcer declaring "The City of Townsville!" (where the girls lived), and then going on to describe some arch villain's plans and the current activities of the girls and the professor.  Townsville took it on the chin, and was virtually destroyed by the actions of that episode's villain (Mojo Jojo, the Gangrene Gang, Him, etc.) and whatever weapon or Godzilla-sized monster was featured.

So, as much as I sympathize with the people who live in the actual city of Townsville, and what they've recently been through with flooding, I break out in a smirk when I hear "the city of Townsville, Queensland", because of the well-established association with the Girls.

Sorry, Townsvillians.  Really.

[mth5044]

Politics and DIY forums mix about as well as beer and toothpaste. I'd hate to accidentally read some right wingers' opinions about political issues, and they would really hate to read mine, so let's not wake the beast, eh?

Sad, but true. Easier to keep the divide than mend it.

I have never once had a problem with:
Small Bear
Mouser

Totally agreed! Each has their negatives (SB can be pricy, mouser can be hard to navigate), but the positives are so good it's often easy to forget them.

[pinkjimiphoton]

wise choice.
prevents me some laying some apparently much needed truth on you.
peace.

[pinkjimiphoton]

all i have further to say is trebuchet, and #ITMFA. collusion is obvious. has been since 2015 when i first started posting open connections on social media from simple google searches.

truth is, my former party hasn't been worth a rat's ass since IKE. ghw poppy bush was the last DECENT republican in their. but the present crew of greedy, self obsessed dolts and demons are the worst thing to happen to america since lincoln defeated the whigs and established the republican party to fix all the avarice.

final thought... i don't truck with nazis or fascists. i am not a trump supporter, never was, never will be.
had no care for hillary either, neither was a choice.

that said, theres no possible way a proffesional statesman such as herself could have possibly @#$%ed shit up the way it is now.
and all the smack the mouthbreather set believes about her from russian troll farms, misinfo, and facebook being paid off is bullshit.

do a simple search for trump + trademarks + russia sometime... if it hasn't been removed now from actual credible sources, nearly 4 years later.

trump tower in moscow? how about trump brand clothing, vodka, ephemera, all ready to go in russia after the election?
the sad thing is it couldn't be sold there due to trade embargos due to all kinds of heinous acts by vlad, trump's puppetmaster.

you guys that believe in that asshat can't see the forest for the trees, so do some actual research, and back off from the forest a bit til ya can see the actual trees.

from the great society to this in less than 40 years. well done, america.

only here can a tool with no @#$%ing brains or intelligence get the highest office in the land with not only less than 1/3rd the vote, but his oponent actually willing.

you folks outta the states have no idea how bad these morons are @#$%ing up everything everywhere they touch, and the shit they use to excuse their heinous deeds.

c'mon, honey, its real money...

hope they take it all with them, and soon.

no love at all.

[vigilante397]

Well this thread took an unexpected turn

But while we're here and off-topic, does anyone know the approximate current draw of a PLL? I don't like the AC supply -> rectifier -> dual linear regulators for bipolar power setup so I'm trying a DC supply -> SMPS that outputs bipolar rails, just not sure it will be able to handle the current draw.

[davent]

Email today from Jameco warning of coming tariffs.

On March 2, 2019 tariffs on power products are scheduled to increase to 25%.

dave