Anybody else getting predatory part offers?

[myke_predko]

Heya,

I was surprised to see an email in my inbox this morning offering me:

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.  

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).  

Anybody else receiving unsolicited emails like this?  

myke

[bobpaddock]

Not so far.

Who knows what floor they may have scraped this off of if they deliver anything at all.

Some parts "recoveres" in China actually put the boards over bond fires to extract the chips to "recover" them.

[Really wish someone would fix the systems 'invalid HTML' error.  I typed this into the box, there was no HTML involved on my end.]