3 Days in San Jose, hits/pits

From: Mike Ford <mikeford_at_socal.rr.com>
Date: Mon Jul 16 01:01:16 2001

>>ES Electronic Solutions on Brokaw, not too exciting. Too well organized
>>(shelves of cardboard bins with contents marked) and fully retail priced

> Huh? Excess Solutions is one of the best possible places for small
>parts and oddities like rack slides. I've shopped at them frequently, and
>would not call many of their prices anywhere near "fully retail."

> I do hope your trip held enough hits to make it worth running over
>the pits. ;-)

A man with an apple tree finds apple prices at the store always too high,
ditto surplus stuff. I nose around too much at the source level of surplus
to be excited by prices in retail stores, and that is what ES is, a retail
store.

Funny its been just about a year since I made that trip and posted about
it, and last week I "found" most of the stuff I bought still in a couple
sacks. Goodiwise I would have to say the trip was a total bust, my time
hunting around very close to a complete waste. In a month I may be back up
in the area, and suspect I won't be going back to 90% of the places in my
last visit.
Received on Mon Jul 16 2001 - 01:01:16 BST