Having major issues getting stock

[Galdorf]

Now i am having major issues getting stock it had gone from next day to next month i have 3 suppliers from Toronto the min time i can get anything is now 4 weeks even worse anything current like ryzen 5000 series and geforce 3000 series and ANY decent gaming video card is now at 6 to 12 weeks.

I have customers that want to upgrade to play cyberpunk 2077 not able to source even fully built systems even brand name with current parts all the big box stores here have NO stock it is now order ONLY.

 

[sapphirescales]

Tell me about it. I just made an order for some Ryzen processors and I was told it was going to be 3 freaking weeks. On a positive side I got boards in less than 3 days. But even SSD's are backordered a week or two. Video cards are almost impossible to get. I'm so sick and tired of this BS.

 

[britechguy]

Tell me about it. I just made an order for some Ryzen processors and I was told it was going to be 3 freaking weeks. On a positive side I got boards in less than 3 days. But even SSD's are backordered a week or two. Video cards are almost impossible to get. I'm so sick and tired of this BS.

Oh, dear Lord, the horror of 3 weeks!

I am so tired of the attitude in this business as a whole that everything should be instantly available, at every moment of every day. If you weren't expecting lead times at many times over the course of your career (but I remember now that you are very young) then you haven't had much of one yet.

There's nothing new about cyclic lack of instantaneous availability. If you know you go through (or will likely go through) a certain amount of stock in a certain amount of time ordering it well ahead of need comes first, and actually keeping things in your personal stash as a buffer, and keeping that buffer, comes next.

There's nothing really new here. For those of us who are old, this has happened many times in the past, where no pandemic was involved. It's just a bit more widespread this time. The world will not spin off its axis.

 

[britechguy]

I have customers that want to upgrade to play cyberpunk 2077

And if ever there were a lower priority, I cannot fathom what it would be. And that's not a swipe at you, either.

 

[sapphirescales]

expecting lead times

It's 2020. These supply chain difficulties should have been resolved by now. People in this day and age don't accept waiting weeks for stuff. Heck, even 3-5 days is difficult for most people. I just had a client who was really p*ssed off because I quoted him an additional $35 to overnight his replacement screen. People expect 1-2 day shipping to be free and included with everything, and there's nothing wrong with that. I shouldn't have to keep a month's worth of inventory at all times, nor should my client be okay with it taking 5-7 days for a replacement screen to arrive. It's not the 1980's anymore. People don't order out of the Sears catalogue anymore.

 

[britechguy]

If waiting a few days for something is impossible for you, then I don't want you as a client.

There is everything wrong with encouraging, "I wanted it yesterday!!," attitudes.

And if people aren't prepared for there to be inconveniences associated with a worldwide pandemic, F 'em!

 

[Sky-Knight]

You can thank Amazon for all of the above, and yeah... it's annoying.

I can still get WD Blue 500gb SSDs off Amazon in two days.

 

[Galdorf]

It is not just the time suppliers are putting limits of 1 or 2 so i can`t even order enough stock for large orders.

 

[NJW]

It's not the 1980's anymore.

No, it's 2020. You may not have heard the news, but there has been a bit of a worldwide upset.

@sapphirescales, you've been locked in your garage since April, with a year's supply of canned goods. If you felt it necessary to do that, why do you think the manufacturing and supply-chain industries should be carrying on as normal? Apart from, for your benefit, of course.

 

[sapphirescales]

No, it's 2020. You may not have heard the news, but there has been a bit of a worldwide upset.

@sapphirescales, you've been locked in your garage since April, with a year's supply of canned goods. If you felt it necessary to do that, why do you think the manufacturing and supply-chain industries should be carrying on as normal? Apart from, for your benefit, of course.

I can understand there being a disruption during a pandemic. I was responding directly to @britechguy's comment that it was "normal" to expect lead times. These aren't normal times right now, but he's acting like things should be the way they were in the 80's and 90's and that's just not acceptable in the modern world. Like it or not, 2 day shipping is the new "normal" and even faster shipping will be the new normal in the near future.

I think expecting fast shipping is a good thing because shipping SHOULD be fast. If it's possible to get things from point A to point B in 2 days, then that should be how long it takes. Things should get better over time, not stay the same or get worse.

And yes, I'm sick of this BS caused by the pandemic and I have every right to be sick of it. I understand the reason for it, but it's also reasonable to expect myself (and everyone else) to be sick of it. Understanding something doesn't remove the negative emotions associated with it. Although a doctor understands disease, he'd be just as upset as anyone else if he contracted a disease.

 

[britechguy]

These aren't normal times right now, but he's acting like things should be the way they were in the 80's and 90's and that's just not acceptable in the modern world. Like it or not, 2 day shipping is the new "normal" and even faster shipping will be the new normal in the near future.

But it ain't the "new normal" now, and that's all that matters. Whiners about lead times under current circumstances need a swift reality check, and a firm one.

 

[YeOldeStonecat]

We're doing pretty good. Have HP, Dell, and Lenovo new stuff coming in daily. I did have to wait 2x days for a specific Thinkpad P73 I ordered....but the other P73's with slightly different specs came the next morning.

I just have 2x items on a little back log, a Unifi 24 Pro switch (but those are normally very low stock...this PRO model I need specifically for POE for a marina)...and a very tricked out Thinkpad P series with 128 gigs, dual TB M.2, and a special 8 gig vid card (to run DaVinci software)....it's a factory order model that is over $5k.

 

[Galdorf]

I have customers still waiting for systems since the release of the ryzen 5000 series and rtx 3080 i have the parts on order and still waiting since October of last year don`t know how long this will take all this waiting is really hurting my wallet as i could have sold dozens of those systems by now.

Some of them gave up waiting and bought the parts at insane markups online one guy spent $4000 on a system i would sell for $2200.