Business is about making money. The more the better.
Just posting on the board here most likely caused a few to go
searching for them just from curiosity.
Dwight
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From: cctalk <cctalk-boun...@classiccmp.org> on behalf of Noel Chiappa
<j...@mercury.lcs.mit.edu>
Sent: Tuesday, December 6, 2016 8:06:17 AM
To: cctalk@classiccmp.org
Cc: j...@mercury.lcs.mit.edu
Subject: Re: Intel C1101A
> From: Mark Moulding
> I did a bulk buy of some 1960's era miniature vacuum tubes (500 pcs)
> for around 50 cents each; the next time I looked, the price from all
> vendors who had them had jumped to around $3
There is another possibility (one which I think I saw happening when Guy and
I were buying DS8641's, which we previously discussed here), which is that if
multiple vendors have stock, an initial order might buy up the ones with the
cheapest price, and a second order will wind up being met from a different
dealer's stock, one with a higher price.
Noel
