> I was not on the project and I'm not in purchasing, so I don't know the details, but from what I heard it was quite odd. Ok. > The vendor (not e-ink, but a

> I was not on the project and I'm not in purchasing, so I don't know the details, but from what I heard it was quite odd. Ok. > The vendor (not e-ink, but a downstream integrator) was first willing to sell thousands of units, we got a devkit from them and started developing. But suddenly they were like "What is your business plan sir?" and "I'm afraid we cannot sell at the moment". The quantity was not the problem, they sounded like they were not happy with the use case. If my purchasing team gave an explanation like that, I'd be suspicious of the purchasing team. I've seen scenarios where the "distributor" didn't actually have the quantity in the timeframe they promised as they weren't a top tier distributor. So the purchasing guy who had some kind of relationship with that distributor was coming up with lots of crazy reasons to keep delaying until we finally found out. As always, the simplest explanation is not "vendors behaving odd and being picky about who they sell to", I've never seen a vendor being unwilling to sell as long as you are offering market price for that quantity.