I once ordered ten plastic vials on taobao. Thought they were a little bit expensive, but nothing to raise suspicion. There's a bag with ten thousand plastic vials in the office now.
AliExpress syndrome: I needed one of these connectors, and now I have 200.pic.twitter.com/DLA9n1HKi8
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rest assured, when you need one again they'll be nowhere to be found.
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The worse part is, you'll somehow have twice as many of the mating connectors, which you don't need, than you remember ordering.
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Yep, same here with Molex and JST connectors. But here its eBay ;)
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I'm still on the same bag of 1000 5mm red LEDs I bought, what, 13 years ago?
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Hey, I am not the only one suffering from the same affliction !
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I ordered a 10m long CAT 7a cable and... well... they delivered me 500m of it...pic.twitter.com/weav1KCBKI
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My partner just said "That is you"
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The price of 100 components is usually cheaper than just 1 from an electronics store!
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