https://community.nxp.com/t5/Kinetis-Microcontrollers/Anybody-else-getting-predatory-part-offers/m-p/1264390#M60269 <P>Heya,</P><P>I was surprised to see an email in my inbox this morning offering me:</P><P><span class="lia-inline-image-display-wrapper lia-image-align-inline" image-alt="2021.04.19 - Predator reach out.jpg" style="width: 712px;"><img src="https://community.nxp.com/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/142663i8BDE264E73D5BEA4/image-size/large?v=v2&amp;px=999" role="button" title="2021.04.19 - Predator reach out.jpg" alt="2021.04.19 - Predator reach out.jpg" /></span></P><P>First off, I did look at this part (it's an accelerometer) but decided not to go with it but the price in this email is at least 3x+ what I would expect from Digi-Key, Mouser or any other major distributor.&nbsp;&nbsp;</P><P>I'm also a bit freaked out because I didn't think my queries would be caught by random people throughout the world (although it could have been through my board manufacturer when we were nailing down the BoM).&nbsp;&nbsp;</P><P>Anybody else receiving unsolicited emails like this?&nbsp;&nbsp;</P><P>myke</P> Mon, 19 Apr 2021 13:47:57 GMT myke_predko 2021-04-19T13:47:57Z https://community.nxp.com/t5/Kinetis-Microcontrollers/Anybody-else-getting-predatory-part-offers/m-p/1264390#M60269 <P>Heya,</P><P>I was surprised to see an email in my inbox this morning offering me:</P><P><span class="lia-inline-image-display-wrapper lia-image-align-inline" image-alt="2021.04.19 - Predator reach out.jpg" style="width: 712px;"><img src="https://community.nxp.com/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/142663i8BDE264E73D5BEA4/image-size/large?v=v2&amp;px=999" role="button" title="2021.04.19 - Predator reach out.jpg" alt="2021.04.19 - Predator reach out.jpg" /></span></P><P>First off, I did look at this part (it's an accelerometer) but decided not to go with it but the price in this email is at least 3x+ what I would expect from Digi-Key, Mouser or any other major distributor.&nbsp;&nbsp;</P><P>I'm also a bit freaked out because I didn't think my queries would be caught by random people throughout the world (although it could have been through my board manufacturer when we were nailing down the BoM).&nbsp;&nbsp;</P><P>Anybody else receiving unsolicited emails like this?&nbsp;&nbsp;</P><P>myke</P> Mon, 19 Apr 2021 13:47:57 GMT https://community.nxp.com/t5/Kinetis-Microcontrollers/Anybody-else-getting-predatory-part-offers/m-p/1264390#M60269 myke_predko 2021-04-19T13:47:57Z https://community.nxp.com/t5/Kinetis-Microcontrollers/Anybody-else-getting-predatory-part-offers/m-p/1264473#M60272 <P>Not so far.</P><P><BR />Who knows what floor they may have scraped this off of if they deliver anything at all.<BR /><BR />Some parts "recoveres" in<SPAN>&nbsp;China actually put the boards over bond fires to extract the chips to "recover" them.<BR /><BR />[Really wish someone would fix the systems 'invalid HTML' error.&nbsp; I typed this into the box, there was no HTML involved on my end.]</SPAN></P> Mon, 19 Apr 2021 15:49:35 GMT https://community.nxp.com/t5/Kinetis-Microcontrollers/Anybody-else-getting-predatory-part-offers/m-p/1264473#M60272 bobpaddock 2021-04-19T15:49:35Z