<rant>
Well I've been strung along for several weeks by epromman. There has been poor (or no) communication throughout the whole process, mixed in with telling me my order would ship, refunding my money and saying he was going to be out sick for at least a week, vague status updates after that, and then finally saying he'd let me know when he had more inventory. Took a couple more attempts to get him to clarify that because how would he not have inventory when he was an inch from shipping my order at the outset??? At least now he's clearly stating that he may not have the parts for a couple of months. But in the meantime I've just wasted weeks waiting for him to come through.
So now I'm so irritated that I don't really care if he's the cheapest and most convenient source out there. I was reluctant to look elsewhere because I want to stock up on a whole variety of 27Cxxx chips for various uses, but now I'd rather buy a few here and a few there at greater expense to get everything I need than buy from him.
</rant>
Now the question is, what's my best alternative? Searching ebay? A local electronics junk store? Something else?
Well I've been strung along for several weeks by epromman. There has been poor (or no) communication throughout the whole process, mixed in with telling me my order would ship, refunding my money and saying he was going to be out sick for at least a week, vague status updates after that, and then finally saying he'd let me know when he had more inventory. Took a couple more attempts to get him to clarify that because how would he not have inventory when he was an inch from shipping my order at the outset??? At least now he's clearly stating that he may not have the parts for a couple of months. But in the meantime I've just wasted weeks waiting for him to come through.
So now I'm so irritated that I don't really care if he's the cheapest and most convenient source out there. I was reluctant to look elsewhere because I want to stock up on a whole variety of 27Cxxx chips for various uses, but now I'd rather buy a few here and a few there at greater expense to get everything I need than buy from him.
</rant>
Now the question is, what's my best alternative? Searching ebay? A local electronics junk store? Something else?

