RFQ
- From: "Jim Butler" <jbutler9@xxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 30 Jan 2007 01:49:38 -0600
This may seem like a stupid question, but I've been wondering this for quite
a while now, and I hope someone here can help me answer this:
When you go looking on the web for a source to purchase some part, and you
can't find it in any of the usual vendor's catalogues (i.e. Digikey, Newark,
etc.) and you do a web search for it, invariably you will get lots of links
to pages for you to submit a Request For Quote. Now here is the question:
How in the world are you supposed to know what price range should seem
reasonable for a part (any part) when 1) you can't find any reference prices
from any competitors anywhere on the net, and 2) the firm that you are
trying to get a quote from does not offer you any clue as to what kind of
price range they are looking for in their parts? For example, let's say I
want to purchase a DSP chip that has been out of production for several
years, and nobody anywhere stocks it, and so my first guess might be that a
reasonable offer for 50 such chips might be $4.00 each, but the firm I'm
submitting the RFQ to won't even begin to consider an offer for any of these
chips at this quantity at less than - say - $25.00 each, and when they get
my RFQ that shoots for $4.00, they wonder what planet I'm living on or if
I'm completely out of touch or something.. Is there some way that I should
have some indication of what the chip should be worth before I submit an
RFQ? I know this must seem like a pretty left-field question, but hey - I'm
just given to wonder and have to ask. Anyone want to offer me any
enlightenment?
Thanks,
Jim Butler
Butler Electronics
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