Supplier delivery speed

[Ioannis]

Well, I consider myself very lucky that Mouser ships to France, passes all the Customs Office details for all European orders and then delivers to each of the final customer, tax-free.

This will take usually a week or so.

Unfortunately Digi Key does not, so I have to pay too much import taxes for about the half the delivery time.

But, less than a day? WOW!

Ioannis

[Demon]

This is what I mean when I talk about the "Arduino craze"; these LCDs went for $5 or so 15 years ago.

$75 USD, saw another ad in Canada at $170CAD, for these exact LDs that I got dirt cheap over a decade ago.

(I was looking for a datasheet to be sure on how to connect mine to my project and saw these listing)

Insanity...

https://www.ebay.com/itm/284694748307


EDIT: $190 USD, USED!

https://www.ebay.com/itm/304015492339



EDIT some more: Then after a few more clicks, averaging $5-8 USD, NEW!

https://www.ebay.com/itm/155162017250

[Ioannis]

Makes no sense at all... Why one put that price on a used LCD? Maybe it is a special one?

I think yes. It has the connector on the right side while the standard is on the left side. For this you have to pay that price?

EDIT 1: found this on aliexpress https://www.aliexpress.com/item/1005004250607751.html so still does not make sense...

Ioannis

[Demon]

I wasn't exaggerating when I said I bought these by the bag for peanuts.





My chicken-scratches I wrote on the label says 23 LCDs.

And I must have at least another 5 LCDs spread out on projects lying about the basement. I think I had bought 3 bags; says $30 for 10 on the bag, so only $3 per LCD.

Ah man, just googled Advanced Computer Products; they were shut down by Apple.

https://www.snarc.net/tr/freeman-acp.htm

[Demon]

JLCPCB:

- ordered January 9th, ordinary shipping
- received January 19th

Note that these are tiny, only 25mm x 25mm (1in x 1in).









Real happy button fit is perfect. I had tweaked the pins holes a tad, and added 2 alignment holes that were missing. Was afraid I had messed things up in the footprint.

[Ioannis]

Looks great!

Keep updating.

Ioannis

[Demon]

Were your packages from JLCPCB wrapped like they could have just been thrown out of the airplane door as it passed over your house?



Holy crap, these few tiny circuits were wrapped in bubble-wrap and completely filled this box.