Are you looking for one of these hard-to-find parts?

If so, then a good independent distributor can provide you with valuable information about the worldwide availability of any items. In other words, they can also alert you to the existence of stock on the gray market that may be of poor or uncertain quality for your production lines (i.e. they may be refurbished, repackaged, recycled, counterfeit, etc.)
And even more importantly, by partnering with a good independent distributor, you can free yourself of the worry of figuring out whether or not the stockholder is trustworthy, and of the stress of negotiating over the payment method (for more information about this, refer to our newsletter of 16/09 which contained some interesting insights on the subject).