On Tue, Jan 24, 2012 at 11:35 PM, Oli Glaser wrot= e: > On 25/01/2012 00:24, V G wrote: >> Hi all, does anyone know of a distributor for the RFM70 RF module? >> >> I know of only Futurlec and Mr. Van Ooijen's website. Futurlec tends to = be >> extremely slow. They took over two months to deliver both times I ordere= d >> from them. > > Two months? > Did they actually have any in stock when you ordered or was that the > backorder time? > Just curious in case I ever want to buy anything from them.. They claimed to have everything in stock (if I can remember correctly) and when I inquired, they said that my order was shipped. But I suspect that a few parts may have been back-ordered. However, I did go with the cheapest shipping option. It would have been faster if I chose the more expensive option. > Vaguely relevant rant: > It drives me nuts when companies advertise stuff as in stock (or give no > details) when they don't have any in, and you only find out 2 weeks > after they take your money. > I've been caught with this a few times, worst was some french company > (forget the name) who I bought some replacement transistors (for an old > turntable) from. Placed order on card, waited - nothing arrived for > weeks, no reply to e-mails etc. > Finally traced the company on whois and phoned the owner at home. He > casually replied to my asking about the delay: "Oh, we don't sell those > any more, I'll refund you. Sorry". > The killer was, they didn't even remove the transistor in question from > the website! it was still there a couple of months later for some other > poor sucker to order... :-) Wow! That's absolutely horrible. What a scam. However, I don't think Futurlec is remotely as bad as that. They're just slow. Also, I wish they let me know if an item in my order is backordered or not. I emailed them and asked them how many RFM70 modules they had, and someone got back to me within the day with a response (100+). I love Mouser for these reasons. Unfortunately, they don't have the newest chips/modules in stock. I think Newark is pretty good as well. --=20 http://www.piclist.com PIC/SX FAQ & list archive View/change your membership options at http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/piclist .