For independent electronic component distributors and brokers

Someone is selling the parts your buyers keep asking you for. They do not know it yet.

A closed plant, a lab cleanout, a defense contractor's shelf, a scrap dealer's lot: the stock ends up with a liquidator who lists it by the box, the reel or the ounce. The hunt reads every listing, every photo and every marking, every day, for the parts your buyers already asked you for. Each find comes back with the evidence, the trace grade and the spread. The first week is free.

Reads the markings in the photos, not the seller's description
Knows what to look for from 90 days of your own requests
Every flag: evidence, trace grade, spread as it sits and after testing

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Where it looks, every day

The best buys are in the lots described by people who never worked in the stockroom.

Independents already know this and hunt by hand, with keyword alerts and a trained eye, in the hour a day that can be spared. The hunt covers every source every day, and it reads what the keyword alert cannot.

Liquidators and industrial auctioneers: Closed EMS plants, OEM line shutdowns, R&D labs, listed by the pallet, the box or the reel.
Government, university and defense surplus: Including DLA disposition lots, where screened military parts sit in mixed boxes.
Scrap and precious metal recovery dealers: Ceramic ICs sold by gold content. The markings say what they are worth as parts.
Bankruptcy trustees and asset recovery firms: Whole stockrooms sold in a hurry by people who never worked in them.
General marketplaces: Listings that are a photo and a guess, under the wrong number or no number at all.
The priced trade feeds everyone sees: Excess postings, broker stock offers, OEM and EMS excess sheets, read against your demand instead of skimmed.

What it reads off the photos

Military and space markings: A 5962 number, JAN, JANTX, JANTXV, QML, MIL-STD-883, Class S or V, hermetic, ceramic or gold-lead packages. The seller sees a chip. The markings say which of your buyers want it.
Legacy logic and memory: Older programmable logic, obsolete DRAM and flash, old microcontrollers. Manufacturer logos and prefixes read off a photo even when the seller typed nothing useful.
Wrong or partial part numbers: Listed under a package suffix, a distributor stock code, or a superseded number that nobody's keyword alert is watching.
Condition clues: Factory-sealed moisture bags with humidity cards, unopened reels with original labels, date codes. Visible in the photos, rarely stated in the text.

What a flag carries

The flag is the evidence, not an opinion.

Cheap triage first, then the drill-down on anything that survives it: every photo pulled and read, the description parsed, alternates and superseded numbers expanded, each identified part matched against your demand and a current market benchmark. It also says when a lot is not a find, which is most of the time.

Find · example, not a real listingcloses Thursday

Lot of 14 reels, listed by weight. Markings read as a 5962 screened FPGA, ceramic, date code 2014.

Your demand, 90 days: 61 buyers · 214 requests · 38% urgent
Trace grade: No trace · AS6081 test required
Asking: $2,400 the lot
Benchmark, tested stock: $1,140 each, your own last quote
Spread as it sits: unknown until quantity is confirmed
Spread after testing, if 40 units: about $38,000 after a $3,600 test and a 20% risk discount

Attached: photo crops with the markings circled, the listing, the buyer count, the benchmark quotes, and which of the 61 buyers accept tested parts.

How it knows what to look for

Your buyers already wrote the target list. It is in the requests.

Every RFQ from NetComponents, Brokerforum, IC Source and the sales inbox is a buyer naming a part, a quantity and a deadline. Counted by part over 90 days and set against the shelf, the requests rank what the market wants from you and does not get. The hunt runs on that list. The same ranking also says what to reprice and what to stop buying, and both come with the report.

Target list, top of the ranking. Example rows, not client data.
Part	Buyers	Requests	Urgent	Your last quote
Legacy FPGA, ceramic, 5962 screened	61	214	38%	$1,140
Obsolete DRAM, last-time buy 2022	44	162	29%	not quoted
Power MOSFET, end of life, TO-247	37	128	41%	$18.50
Hermetic crystal oscillator, mil temp	29	96	33%	$46

Traceability, priced in

A part is worth what its paperwork says it is worth. The flag prices it that way.

Traceable to the original manufacturer or a franchised distributor is the top grade. Known source with paperwork is the middle. No trace is the bottom, and most liquidation lots sit there. Each grade has its own benchmark, and the flag shows the spread at the grade the lot has and at the grade it can reach after inspection. Buyers whose requests demand full trace are never counted as demand for a no-trace lot.

How the free week works

Three steps, one week, every find with evidence.

01
Tell the hunt what to look for
Export 90 days of RFQ history from each marketplace and the sales inbox, or set a rule that forwards the notification emails for 30 days, and add a stock list from the ERP. Ranked by part against the shelf, that gives the hunt its target list: the parts buyers keep asking you for that you do not have. A one page mutual NDA comes first.
02
Seven days of the hunt on your top 25
Every source above, read every day for those parts. Cheap triage first, then the drill-down on anything that survives it: every photo pulled and read, the description parsed, alternates expanded, each part matched to your demand and a market benchmark.
03
The report: every find, with evidence
Each flag carries the photo crops with the markings circled, the listing, your buyer count, the benchmark, the trace grade, the spread as it sits and after testing, and the close date. Plus the target list itself: what to acquire, what to reprice, what to stop buying. Yours either way.

Free week, five a month

Start the hunt.

Seven days across every source for your top 25 most-requested parts, every find with evidence, plus the target list that drove it.

NUDGE is a one person practice run by Justin Beegel. He reads every flag before it goes out and replies within one business day. He designed the demand ranking and the market hunt for a parts distributor whose request stream outran what any person could read, and the same method applies to any distributor buying on judgment and selling through a marketplace feed.

Questions distributors ask first

Is the hunt really free?

The first week is. It is the first step NUDGE runs with every distributor, because a week of real finds decides whether the daily version is worth running. Some weeks end with the report and a thank you. Some turn into the hunt running every day. The report is yours either way.

Why does it need my RFQs?

So it knows what to look for. A hunt for everything finds nothing. Ninety days of your own requests, ranked by part, is the list of what the market wants from you and does not get. The hunt runs on that list and nothing else, which is why its finds are parts you can sell the week they arrive.

Will it find something every week?

No, and the report says so when it does not. Most lots are not finds. The point of the week is to see how many real ones surface for your target list and at what spread, logged with evidence, so the decision to keep hunting is made on a number rather than a story.

Most lots at a liquidation have no trace. Can those parts be sold?

Often, after testing, and the flag says so before anyone bids. Each find carries a trace grade: traceable to the original manufacturer or a franchised distributor, known source with paperwork, or no trace. A no-trace lot is priced at the tested-stock benchmark minus AS6081 inspection and a risk discount, and it is only flagged against buyers whose requests accept tested parts. Buyers who wrote OCM trace required on the request are never counted as demand for it.

What if exporting from the marketplaces is a hassle?

Forward instead. A mailbox rule that copies the NetComponents, Brokerforum or IC Source notification emails and the shared sales inbox to a NUDGE address for 30 days gives the hunt its target list, already structured. Ten minutes to set up, nothing to export. The stock list is one report from the ERP: part number, quantity, unit cost, date received.

What happens to the data?

It is used to build the target list and deleted after the report is delivered, unless the distributor asks to keep going. It is never shared, and nothing in the report names a buyer outside the distributor that sent the requests.

What gets built if the week pays?

The daily version. The hunt running every morning on a target list rebuilt nightly from the live request stream, every flag logged against cost, benchmark and what happened within 90 days, on one screen beside the ERP. Nothing is replaced. The quoting tool keeps quoting; this decides what goes on the shelf.

Is this for brokers, distributors or both?

Both. The pattern needs inbound requests in volume and a shelf that is bought on judgment. Independent distributors and brokers selling through NetComponents, Brokerforum, IC Source or a shared sales inbox have both.

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