As you probably know, ol' SparkFun started as a place for engineers, students and hobbyists to find products in small quantities for their electrical engineering projects. Before SparkFun, many items were only available in large quantities from the manufacturer, and when the average tinkerer only needed one or two, they ran into an issue. We would buy a good chunk of them, offer them in the convenient quantity of one or two and... BAM – we had a business!
Look at all that sweet, sweet inventory.
But what happens when that tinkerer has a breakthrough, and decides to put the gears into motion for their first run of larger production? What do you do when you need a reel of LEDs or 500 Arduino Pro Minis to get the ball rolling? What happens when you are ready to take the next step? You call me!
For a long time we have operated with smaller quantities in mind for our customers. Although each product page has price breaks for up to 100 units, we never really advertised that we can and do offer larger-quantity discounts for most of our products. I'm here today to tell you that we can also easily help you with better pricing and scheduling for your larger-scale needs. Whether it's a SparkFun-built board or a third-party product we sell in the web store, I can get you a better discount and an accurate lead time to help get your idea built and into people's hands.
This is Gordon, and he approves this message.
If you need 150 units or more, please check out our Volume Sales info page, send us an email or call me at 303-284-0979 to get the conversation started. If this is something you think you might need in the future, you can always find the Volume Sales info page at the very bottom left of the SparkFun site in the Programs section:
I would love to hear from you!
This is an interesting article. So far I have not needed lots of anything, but I need many of few. I have purchased complete sets as I hate not having little components. I have Sparkfun's capacitor and resister sets. From others-lines suppliers I have complete sets of ICs, transistors, even more capacitor and resisters sets, and sets of various LEDs. So I would say that sets of items with an organizer and labels which I have purchased are more what folks might want. Thanks for the nice article.