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They should have doubled down on things I can't easily know to get online. connectors, buttons, displays, enclosure, anything I'd like to get my hands on to fee
by Already__Taken 9y ago
They should have doubled down on things I can't easily know to get online. connectors, buttons, displays, enclosure, anything I'd like to get my hands on to feel or wouldn't know the name of to even search for.
I thought i'd get some buttons for a control panel, the selection was terrible and what was there was nasty and cheap feeling but cost a lot. Ended up just getting some crimps I needed and those were such poor quality I ended up re-crimping the project next day once amazon turned up.
- tonyedgecombe 9y agoI don't think there was much they could do, it was inevitable that stuff would shift online, the economics of selling it in retail didn't add up.
- andyjohnson0 9y agoThat would be great for you and me, but "normal" people don't need such things and business customers use RS[1] or Farnell. You can't maintain a retail network selling to hackers/makers. [1] Whose physical shops inexplicably don't even open at the weekend. Grrr.