Don’t you hate it when you go to your local store to purchase their wares and they tell you nope we don’t want your money.
I might be paraphrasing my recent encounter at Conrad Electronics. I wanted to purchase one of the electronic SMD switches only to be told that that was for businesses only. You cannot become part of their program unless you have a company registered in Germany.
I did manage to find a very similar part on Ebay and there are other companies such as Mouser, Digikey and Reichelt.
I guess capitalism will out.