• SippyCup@feddit.nl
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    5 days ago

    Back when I was a fabricator I made some of the critical components used in Amazon stores. Amazon was incredibly particular about every little detail, even on parts that didn’t call for tight tolerancing in any conceivable way. They, on several occasions, sent us one bad set of prints after another. Which we could only discover after completing a run of parts. We’re talking 20-30 thousand units that ended up being scrapped because of their shitty prints. Millions of dollars set on fire, basically.

    They became such a huge pain in the ass to work with we eliminated every single SKU they ordered from us.

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      Ordering components with unnecessarily small tolerances is stupid and a waste of money but of course they will complain if you can’t make the parts to the specifications.

      Why did you even take the order in the first place if you can’t manage to produce them to spec?

      • Revan343@lemmy.ca
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        of course they will complain if you can’t make the parts to the specifications.

        Why did you even take the order in the first place if you can’t manage to produce them to spec?

        Where did they say anything about not being able to make the parts to spec?

      • ubergeek@lemmy.today
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        Why did you even take the order in the first place if you can’t manage to produce them to spec?

        They were made to spec, but the specs were wrong.