Component price increases

[alenppc]

Just a heads up. I noticed that Mouser has increased their price of MCA connectors by about 50%, the CF card adapters have also gone up in price in China, plus there were various other minor increases such as CPLD costs by Digikey.

This means I will probably have to slightly raise the price of sets sold on Amibay as a result once I have to restock. Sorry guys...

[exxos]

I've noticed China prices sky-rocket over the past few months. Some chips went from like £1-£2 to £8-£15.. I've been buying stocks of stuff before it gets any worse.

[terriblefire]

I tend to avoid china for chips. Sockets yes. They cant screw those up.

If i thought there was a massive market for them i'd buy a batch of the AMP connectors. But i've not broken even on the KEL connectors yet. The prices of those have plummeted due to me. If I was a "bar steward" i'd withdraw them from sale and sit on the remaining stock for year or two.

[brostenen]

After they instated VAT and import fee on purchases no matter what price, then I have stopped buying anything from outside the EU. I was lucky to get the last bit's and pieces for my ATX-64 build, 14 days or so, before the VAT and import fee were instated fully.