I'm extremely skeptical of any company that does as much advertising as PCBWay, but they seem to legitimately do a good job. From what I can tell, it seems every single order is reviewed by a human who sends you an email if something is off. Quality is as good as you'd want and the price is reasonable.
Their website is an atrocity but I guess that's fine.
I've been using them for the last few months and I have no complaints.
Spoken like someone who’s never actually ordered from them.
PCBway is among the better board fabs in the world - certainly in terms of customer service, and very hard to beat in terms of value for money. The fact that they get you quote and acceptance in under an hour (during US working hours!) is incredible.
American board fabs could learn a thing or two from PCBway. They set a very high standard in terms of service. I’m very impressed by it.
I wouldn’t send a server motherboard or a radar frontend design to them (for a multitude of reasons - ITAR controls likely forefront among them) but most circuit designs aren’t in that league of board design. Most are two to six layers and 300 or fewer parts placed.
PCBway does pretty superlative work serving that niche.
> Spoken like someone who’s never actually ordered from them.
Spoken like someone who didn’t read the comment they’re replying to?
The person you’re replying to said PCBWay was good. Quoting that comment: “they seem to legitimately do a good job” “Quality is as good as you'd want and the price is reasonable.”
I use PCBWay professionally for simple fixtures and tooling. I once had parts fabricated from them and on my desk quicker than the time it took our usual domestic supplier to provide a quote - and their quote was more than 10X what PCBWay quoted. I really like their CNC service and I’ve only had one issue where a large part had a bent corner when it arrived due to shipping damage. I quickly removed some material from the fixture and put it in service.
Their website is an atrocity but I guess that's fine.
I've been using them for the last few months and I have no complaints.