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amusement parks and other kinds of businesses that use This, for many industries, is vital. Because if you have a,
industrial electronics have fail-safe mechanisms that stop the let’s say, 30 or 40-year-old factory, you might not want to
machinery when something goes wrong, at the end of the day, change—or you can’t change it because it is not economically
you need to fix it as soon as possible because otherwise, your feasible—the entire setup of your factory because one of
business is losing money. That’s why companies send their your old industrial electronics components failed and there
industrial electronics to us for refurbishing and repair.” isn’t a spare part to be found in the entire world. When this
happens, you can rest assured that JC-Electronics will have
How would you compare JC-Electronics to its a solution. And that is incredibly valuable. If you are looking
competition? for industrial electronics that are scarce or out of production,
“There are a few competitors, but, of course, every company we have 300,000 pieces of electronics in stock by purchasing
will say this, but I honestly think we are better than them. worldwide. We are the only company capable of this.”
And this is mainly for several reasons: we have more stock,
FROM ‘COPPER AND ELECTRICITY’ TO
which is vital in this line of business, and higher quality.
E-COMMERCE
For example, we provide all of our products with a two-year
guarantee, when sometimes even the brand who created the
product sells it new with only a one-year guarantee.” Originally, JC-Electronics was a traditional physical B2B
business. They sold via resellers, and their contact with the
And why do you specifically say the stock is end consumer was limited at best. However, this all changed.
important?
Jelle continues: “Many of the electronic components in use Was JC-Electronics a traditional brick-and-mortar
inside factories and assembly plants are old. Some of them business before using e-commerce?
are so old that you can’t find them anywhere, and obviously, “It was more a physical B2B, a copper and electricity business
most of the time, you won’t find them new. That’s why JC- if you want, but yes, it was a physical business model. We
Electronics has a massive advantage because we keep a huge used to sell through resellers most of the time. That was how
stock of industrial electronics to refurbish, and we have a we sold our products and how we got our clients. But this
really powerful network of sellers that we tap into regularly changed once we got our webshop. Before the webshop, we
to keep buying these old components to refurbish and repair used to have 20 to 30 new clients per month, at this moment
them. this has increased by 1000%. So yes, e-commerce has become

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