On Tue, 13 Mar 2007 20:37:27 -0600, you wrote:

>I regularly do production runs of 100-500 boards.  I used to use 
>expresspcb, but since I needed stencils for the new SMD stuff I'm doing, 
>I decided to switch to using gerbers. 
>
>Note I'm talking production here, not proto.  For proto, I'm using 
>Alberta PRinted Circuits and am happy with them.
>
>On the production side, so far, I've used Advanced Circuits (4pcb).  
>Took advantage of their $500 free offer.   Loved the boards.   But a bit 
>pricey.  So I looked around a bit.
>
>On the lowest end of the price scale, I found PCBCart.   Pricing was 
>great so I threw a simple, one layer board, no drill/vias (SMD only) at 
>them.   7 day turn + holiday backlog.   Got an email from them asking 
>questions about the board, and even got a panelized gerber from them so 
>I could get a stencil made.  Then nothing.  No email.  No update to the 
>web site with estimated ship date, or anything.   After two weeks of 
>sending them an email every 48 hours just requesting status, I gave up 
>and filed a dispute with paypal (figured that would get their 
>attention).  Now the status says "failed" which I take it means that I'm 
>not going to get the boards at all. 

That's surprising - I've used them for 6 boards so far from 1 to 4 layers, and service and
communications have been excellent. I noticed their website was very slow yesterday so maybe they've
been having comms problems. 
 

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