Mouser Restricting Sales to Some Hobbyists

The one thing I can enjoy in the USA is some of those british shows, even if they are peppered with commercials here.
Free TV service (over the air broadcast).
Shows like Benny Hill, Are you being Served, Keeping Up Appearances, Mrs Browns Boys, etc.
Oh, and I love Judy Dench in As Time Goes By.
 
This information is over a year old.
When shortages was more of a problem.

When hard to get items , finally did appear.

Greedy turds buy them all and then try and resale for higher prices.

If your were ordering a small count of devices non issue.

if your account history shows huge lots purchased.
like 100 to 1000 devices. Then it is obvious you are
not a hobbyist.
 
Wow. That's pretty remarkable. It's been a few weeks since I last ordered from Mouser. I'll let you know if I run into trouble with my next order (hobbyist, business, whatever status or not).

I usually split my orders between Mouser and Digikey (occasionally looping in Future) depending on who's lower cost for the quantities I need. If Mouser won't sell to me Digikey will get more business.

Tom
 
I'll just add that you do not need a TV Licence to listen to the radio in the UK.
In Denmark there used to be a radio licence and a TV licence. I think there even used to be different licences for colour and B&W TV. The radio-only licence was lower cost than TV. The TV licence included radio. That converged to a media licence once people started streaming on their computers.

I just looked it up. These days the media licence is apparently handled through the regular income tax. Basically a chunk of the income tax goes to public broadcasting, which tends to be of quite high quality. That seems like a pretty reasonable approach.

Tom
 
Have had problems with Mouser and switched to Digikey (for now), although I've also had problems with Digikey in the past. That said, I don't take any wooden nickels. I try to be a good seller, I'm nobody's favorite buyer.

It's only a matter of time before Amazon decides to monopolize this business line, which will be bad for everyone.
 
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