New Stuff

Just listed some new items, the much talked about RGB and UV Superflux LEDs

We're Golden

At last we're back up to Gold Powerseller on ebay!
Many thanks for all your support and orders over the last 3 months!!

99.8%

of all our customers are nice, reasonable, sane and reply to emails. 0.2% it would seem are mean, unreasonable, questionable in the sanity department and rarely reply to emails - if ever. 0.2 % Bastards. The rest of you I love.

April Already!

The fourth month of the year is upon us already! It's been rather busy and this blog has been rather neglected. Also there is a small, actually large, amount of stock that is not yet for sale anywhere!!
There's some 1206 SMDs, Superflux LEDs in UV and RGB, tonnes of 10mm LEDs, some Bicolour and Tricolour LEDs in the old style that have been in stock for some years.
Just skimmed some interesting LED stories, that I thought I'd share.

http://www.electronicsweekly.com/blogs/led-lights/2009/03/site-update-led-based-performance-art.html

http://science.howstuffworks.com/led-incapacitator.htm

Sorry for the quick, dirty and unedited blog - but sommin is better than nothin.

Mid March Update

Well it's mid March and it has been another truly hectic month so far. Sales have broken the previous month's record already and I'm finding less and less time at the end of every day. Weeks are now 6 days long and the days are coming in between 10 and 16 hours.
It is however fantastic, being busy and seeing so many new customers is a real privilege in these troubled times.
We've added a number of new product lines and are adding more all the time

Good Bye Italy

I've finally cracked! I've had it up to here (I'm holding my hand up above my head!) The Italian Postal Service are Thieves and due to their lack of ability to deliver my packages I have decided to stop sending to Italy.
Apologies to any existing customers, but only 1 in 3 packages gets to it's recipient in Italy. The usual procedure is that I send the items, I get an angry email 2 weeks later, then resend the items and then get a paypal dispute, which of course I lose as it is started as an item not received case. So all in all I lose 2 x the items ordered then the money initially paid.
This post is a rant but I've not posted for a while anyway.

Update: After the red mist cleared I did indeed continue shipping to Italy. Fortunately we have a new agreement with Royal Mail and we should be receiving compensation for every missing parcel.

Aston Martin

I broke a rule today, I usually go by no collections. I work from home and don't want to have people coming and going. At lunch time today I received a call from a very desperate sounding man, needing 90 Red LEDs today as their regular supplier had let them down. So with a man in need, I broke the rule.
He drove a hour to pick the LEDs up and only stopped for a short chat, but in this time he told me where the LEDs would end up, apparently they'd be in Geneva within 48 hours, taking pride of place in the rear lights of the Aston Martin Lagonda at the Geneva Motor show.
I think that's rather cool.