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Originally Posted by Taylor
FIRSTChoice first opened back in December. It's a first-come-first-serve program. This is well-documented and well-advertised. Why did you wait until mid-January to start looking for parts? Are you shopping for Christmas trees now too?
I'm trying, but I just don't see how you get from the first sentence to the second. Why would you order parts you won't need/won't use?
They already do exactly this. Some of the parts were available in December; other parts were rotated in after kickoff.
What's stopping you, or any other team, from purchasing what you need? Most everything on FIRSTChoice is available to the public.
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The credit-to-dollar ratio among parts available on FIRSTChoice is wildly different for each part. Some parts, such as Talons, represent a fantastic value compared to other parts and, simultaneously, have many, many more use cases than those other parts. That means that they disappear immediately and use of FIRSTChoice -- even if you sign in right away on the day it opens -- is an exercise in frustration and furious button mashing. It's the online version of Walmart on Black Friday and somewhat ridiculous.
We have money and buy all of the parts we want or need and are very fortunate to be able to do that. That means that I don't have to worry about practicing loading items into my cart, blocking out time in the middle of my work day so I can be online at 12:00:00 and fighting with bugs, server time outs, etc. Not everyone is as lucky.