I was on the MicroCenter website over the weekend and realized that all Arduino products, including sensors, kits, etc, have been removed from their website. This also includes all the Sparkfun branded products. I originally attributed it to possible site maintenance, but we’re well into Monday afternoon and the site is still missing all Arduino-type products, except a few books.
Anyone know if Microcenter has pulled out from selling Arduino products, sensors, etc going forward? Spark, any information on your end, since they were a reseller of your products?
I hope I’m wrong and that it’s just a bug with their site or some sort of database maintenance going on. Still, seeing all those items gone for over 2-3 days is disconcerting…
They did have a problem just the other day when I rang out in store. The cashier had to manually enter them. Hopefully they keep them stocked as their displayed inventory was starting to run low :(.
So here is something interesting… It’s starting to seem like there are some inconsistencies in their database. First page after clicking ‘Hobby Electronics’ on their main page. 2 Products displayed… 4 pages (or more)… 33 of those products that are displaying or retrieved are Sparkfun products… Maybe they went through an upgrade that went horribly wrong…
Maurerit, I believe you are correct. Looks like their database has some corruption issues. When I select the store in Virginia and then chose the Hobby Electronics category, I get 85 items in the category, and four ‘pages’. Each page is missing a lot of items, and page 4 cannot be displayed…
This actually makes me feel a bit better - I’m going to guess they will keep selling these items, and that the database running the website is corrupted…