On Fri, 4 Apr 2014, Mick Nowell wrote:

I need a couple of 15uF, 100v radial capacitors - 105c.

Typically the online price is less than a dollar each, but the shipping
is closer to $10.00.

I've been looking through Alibaba because the Chinese government seems
to subsidize shopping. I've gotten smart phone subassemblies shipped
all the way from Guandong for zero shipping.... but no luck yet with
capacitors.

Can anybody cite a source where they don't charge so much for shipping?


DIGIKEY. 4 caps $7.50 ea. + $33.00 to ship to CAN.

I just went through the thread, and I don't see any indication of where
the original poster is.

It's not just an issue of country, but city. Someone out in a little town
isn't likely to be able to visit an electronic parts store, but if they
guy lived in Canada and lived in Toronto, Vancouver or Montreal, there
surely is some place they could go to buy parts.

Has Active Electronics been whiped out? I don't know abut the US, but in
Canada they had outlets in the major cities, and you could just walk in,
and either pull parts off the rack, or for more exotic parts, fill out a
form, and they'd fulfill it on the spot.

Michael