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Originally Posted by I_AM_Clayton
We've been lucky to not have to order many parts online for our robot this year but when we have, 50% of the time we've been shipped the wrong parts. We ordered c channel and received REV extrusion metal. A week later we ordered a 2015 kop chassis, belts and 4 8" grey 2010 grip wheels along with two 8" omnis. The chassis and the belts came in correctly but we received 4 6" white grip wheels and the omnis. Is this usual from Andymark? Has anyone else been experiencing this, during build season?
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Haven't had this issue with Andymark this year, but I have run into it with another supplier of FRC parts (which shall go nameless). I think because many of these suppliers are fairly small operations, there's a bit more of a rush to get a lot of items shipped out with very little time and manpower to do it. It seems like as FRC grows, and the use of COTS parts becomes more and more prevalent, the suppliers are having a hard time keeping up with the demand.
At least, that's my opinion based on what I've observed, the only people who can really tell us for sure what causes issues like these are the suppliers themselves.
