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Paying upfront with long lead time

tigerwillow1

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This is more of an economic or philosophical question than technical. I'm looking at one particular company but don't think it's necessary to be specific other to say it's a USA company. The situation is pre-ordering some batteries for say $5,000, with the projected delivery date 2 months out. Full upfront payment is required, which sets off my risk alarm with all sorts of questions: What if they just don't deliver, or deliver a box of bricks? What if the delivery date gets pushed out another 6 months? What if the company goes out of business? Etc... Waiting for 2 month delivery likely forfeits any protections afforded to a credit card purchase.

My question is if this is an unreasonable risk I should walk away from, or is it that's how the business works and everybody does it that way, or something in-between?
 
I personally would never pre-order anything over a couple hundred dollars. And after seeing the battery group buy fiasco here, I would not do it on batteries at all. I would rather suck up the extra cost of getting them when actually available.
 
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