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Re:Suspension of inbound parcels from China and Hong Kong by bogantech on Wednesday February 05, 2025 @01:07PM (#42952642)
You can't even get a bare PCB manufactured anywhere else for a price even remotely close to that of JLC, PCBWay etc.

Component availability has nothing to do with that, JLC have always been way cheaper than US/EU board houses even before they started doing assembly services

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Re:Suspension of inbound parcels from China and Hong Kong by Veliladon on Thursday February 06, 2025 @09:47AM (#42962859)
Their cheap as chips PCBs are garbage for anything but hobbyist use. They use crappy substrates and have poor tolerances. If you want decent quality substrates and decent quality finishes for fine pitched work the price quickly shoots up.
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