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Mouser vs. Digikey
Anybody notice that the price of shipping has skyrocketed when buying from
Mouser? Needed a single SO-8 pin chip for a repair on a HP 34970A. Both companies had the part for about $1.48. Digikey shipping: $2.80 Mouser shipping $6.99 Both ship USPS. Sheesh. I'll think twice before buying from Mouser in the future, unless they're the only one that has the part I need. |
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On Mon, 12 Nov 2012 08:50:59 -0500, JW wrote:
Anybody notice that the price of shipping has skyrocketed when buying from Mouser? Needed a single SO-8 pin chip for a repair on a HP 34970A. Both companies had the part for about $1.48. Digikey shipping: $2.80 Mouser shipping $6.99 Both ship USPS. Sheesh. I'll think twice before buying from Mouser in the future, unless they're the only one that has the part I need. Nice conspiracy. Testing.... Mouser: http://us.mouser.com/EstimateShipping/EstimateShipping.aspx For 1 lb or less to California (95060) commercial: FedEx $7.04 UPS $7.04 USPS $4.95 Digikey: http://ordering.digikey.com/Ordering/ShipCostEstimator.aspx?site=us For 1 lb or less to California (95060) commerical: UPS $7.14 FedEx $7.14 USPS $2.80 (less than 8 oz via First Class) USPS $5.10 (over 8oz and via Priority Mail) Looking at the Digikey chart, it appears that they will only ship USPS first class if it weighs less than 8 oz. Anything heavier would go via priority mail at a higher cost than Mouser. So, for anything weighing less than 8 oz, Digikey is certainly cheaper. Otherwise, they're about the same. -- Jeff Liebermann 150 Felker St #D http://www.LearnByDestroying.com Santa Cruz CA 95060 http://802.11junk.com Skype: JeffLiebermann AE6KS 831-336-2558 |
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Jeff Liebermann wrote: Looking at the Digikey chart, it appears that they will only ship USPS first class if it weighs less than 8 oz. Anything heavier would go via priority mail at a higher cost than Mouser. So, for anything weighing less than 8 oz, Digikey is certainly cheaper. Otherwise, they're about the same. Mouser also plays games with the UPS shipping, so use the US Mail option when you can - I had them ship a package to work, which is a real workplace with staff sitting there to receive packages, and they charged me the higher "residential" rate. They also take it upon themselves to collect sales tax for states they don't operate in - for the (small) volume of business I do that basically means double-paying, since the paperwork to track it all is a time (thus money) sink far larger than just handing the state the "safe harbor amount" for online purchases. I don't recall what DigiKey does on that front as I haven't ordered from them in a while (Mouser has had stuff in stock I wanted that they didn't have for the past few orders.) I certainly prefer Mouser's online catalog to Digi-Key's - Newark was in there for a while but has not been worth following up on for the past few orders either. -- Cats, coffee, chocolate...vices to live by Please don't feed the trolls. Killfile and ignore them so they will go away. |
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In sci.electronics.repair Ecnerwal wrote:
In article , Jeff Liebermann wrote: Looking at the Digikey chart, it appears that they will only ship USPS first class if it weighs less than 8 oz. Anything heavier would go via priority mail at a higher cost than Mouser. So, for anything weighing less than 8 oz, Digikey is certainly cheaper. Otherwise, they're about the same. Mouser also plays games with the UPS shipping, so use the US Mail option when you can - I had them ship a package to work, which is a real workplace with staff sitting there to receive packages, and they charged me the higher "residential" rate. They also take it upon themselves to collect sales tax for states they don't operate in - for the (small) volume of business I do that basically means double-paying, since the paperwork to track it all is a time (thus money) sink far larger than just handing the state the "safe harbor amount" for online purchases. I don't recall what DigiKey does on that front as I haven't ordered from them in a while (Mouser has had stuff in stock I wanted that they didn't have for the past few orders.) I certainly prefer Mouser's online catalog to Digi-Key's - Newark was in there for a while but has not been worth following up on for the past few orders either. I'm surprised newark even has a website. that place is seriously backwards with their weird flip flop between the 45 names they use and inability to calculate shipping. I might use them about once every 5 years, as a last choice. |
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On Mon, 12 Nov 2012 23:04:24 +0000 (UTC), Cydrome Leader
wrote: I'm surprised newark even has a website. that place is seriously backwards with their weird flip flop between the 45 names they use and inability to calculate shipping. I might use them about once every 5 years, as a last choice. Be thankful you're not outside USA and stuck with Newark as the ONLY house with stock of a part. We ordered two connectors ($7.52 each) and selected USPS Priority International (based on the recommendation of Newark in an email exchange as the cheapest option). Shipping of course won't come up on the Newark site, so we were somewhat ****ed off to eventually get billed $38.05 for shipping. Newark haven't heard of USPS flat rate boxes. |
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On 11/12/2012 8:50 AM, JW wrote:
Anybody notice that the price of shipping has skyrocketed when buying from Mouser? Needed a single SO-8 pin chip for a repair on a HP 34970A. Both companies had the part for about $1.48. Digikey shipping: $2.80 Mouser shipping $6.99 Both ship USPS. Sheesh. I'll think twice before buying from Mouser in the future, unless they're the only one that has the part I need. Last few orders where I chose USPS priority, the orders were shipped UPS second day air for same price. I have no complaint with Mouser, excellent website, fast shipping, but my orders are usually $50-100 a time. |
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On Mon, 12 Nov 2012 09:27:45 -0800 Jeff Liebermann
wrote in Message id: : On Mon, 12 Nov 2012 08:50:59 -0500, JW wrote: Anybody notice that the price of shipping has skyrocketed when buying from Mouser? Needed a single SO-8 pin chip for a repair on a HP 34970A. Both companies had the part for about $1.48. Digikey shipping: $2.80 Mouser shipping $6.99 Both ship USPS. Sheesh. I'll think twice before buying from Mouser in the future, unless they're the only one that has the part I need. Nice conspiracy. Testing.... Mouser: http://us.mouser.com/EstimateShipping/EstimateShipping.aspx For 1 lb or less to California (95060) commercial: FedEx $7.04 UPS $7.04 USPS $4.95 Digikey: http://ordering.digikey.com/Ordering/ShipCostEstimator.aspx?site=us For 1 lb or less to California (95060) commerical: UPS $7.14 FedEx $7.14 USPS $2.80 (less than 8 oz via First Class) USPS $5.10 (over 8oz and via Priority Mail) Looking at the Digikey chart, it appears that they will only ship USPS first class if it weighs less than 8 oz. Anything heavier would go via priority mail at a higher cost than Mouser. So, for anything weighing less than 8 oz, Digikey is certainly cheaper. Otherwise, they're about the same. I'm shipping to MA, but it is a residential address. Zip is 02108 Shipping from Mouser is listed as $6.95, but when I process the order they add four cents for some odd reason. On my last order of under 1lb , it didn't even come USPS as I requested, but came Fedex instead. |
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Looking at the Digikey chart, it appears that they will only ship USPS
First Class if it weighs less than 8 oz. Anything heavier would go via Priority Mail at a higher cost than Mouser. So, for anything weighing less than 8 oz, Digikey is certainly cheaper. Otherwise, they're about the same. Sometime in the recent (?) past, Digikey switched to a "no minimum order" policy. This doesn't work if you don't provide an inexpensive way to ship small, low-cost items. This is what Digikey did. Shipping has gotten really expensive. I can no longer "afford" to buy less than $50 to $100 of items at a time. Otherwise, the shipping represents too high a percentage of the price. |
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On Mon, 12 Nov 2012 08:50:59 -0500, JW wrote:
Anybody notice that the price of shipping has skyrocketed when buying from Mouser? Needed a single SO-8 pin chip for a repair on a HP 34970A. Both companies had the part for about $1.48. Digikey shipping: $2.80 Mouser shipping $6.99 Both ship USPS. Sheesh. I'll think twice before buying from Mouser in the future, unless they're the only one that has the part I need. For my $.25 worth, both Digi-Key and Mouser are excellent for $50 and larger orders, or if you REALLY have to have the parts. (IOW, shipping expense isn't a factor). If you need a half dozen caps, Digi-Key will get them in your hands quicker and cheaper. What I admire about both is No Minimum Order, No Handling Charge for small orders, and I've never been jerked around with the "Yes, we show it in stock, but we can't sell it to you" from either of them. PlainBill |
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Ecnerwal wrote:
They also take it upon themselves to collect sales tax for states they don't operate in - for the (small) volume of business I do that basically means double-paying, since the paperwork to track it all is a time (thus money) sink far larger than just handing the state the "safe harbor amount" for online purchases. I have given all the major distributors my state tax exemption number, only Allied has a problem, they always bill em for the tax, and I pay only for the parts plus shipping, with a note that my tax number is on file. They have a button on the order screen for "tax exempt" but it doesn't work. Of course, if you don't have an exemption #, then you have to pay taxes if they want to charge you. I hope you don't live in Indiana, where they think they have the right to charge me sales tax when I sell products to England, even though I have no presence in Indiana and only sell something to a state entity once every 10 years. They are completely nuts. I certainly prefer Mouser's online catalog to Digi-Key's - Newark was in there for a while but has not been worth following up on for the past few orders either. Gee, I really like Digi-Key's, and use it for all sorts of parts search and data sheet searching. I think their parametric search is the only one that really works well. But, every distributor has really good pricing on SOMETHING, and if you are ordering more than a few, it pays (literally!) to check them all. Allied and Newark are good for IR parts, Newark has good prices on small cabinet parts, Digi-Key is the only source for Xilinx as Avnet won't open an account for me so I have to prepay by credit card. Mouser has the best stock and prices on oddball capacitors, from SMT up to big snap-lock electrolytics. Anyway, I have seen variation in prices up to almost 2:1 in the most extreme cases, between the major distributors. Other stuff, they will all list the same part at $2.01, exact to the penny! But, in many cases, one of them gives a better volume discount, so the single or 10-piece price is about the same, but the 100-piece is quite different. Jon |
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On Mon, 12 Nov 2012 23:04:24 +0000 (UTC), Cydrome Leader
wrote: I certainly prefer Mouser's online catalog to Digi-Key's - Newark was in there for a while but has not been worth following up on for the past few orders either. I'm surprised newark even has a website. that place is seriously backwards with their weird flip flop between the 45 names they use and inability to calculate shipping. I might use them about once every 5 years, as a last choice. I can certainly understand that. Decades ago Newark was very nice to me. I gave them all the business i could afford at the time; i had to ride my bicycle there and back. All of the times i have dealt with them since has not been a problem. Just not very frequent. ?-) |
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In sci.electronics.components josephkk wrote:
On Mon, 12 Nov 2012 23:04:24 +0000 (UTC), Cydrome Leader wrote: I certainly prefer Mouser's online catalog to Digi-Key's - Newark was in there for a while but has not been worth following up on for the past few orders either. I'm surprised newark even has a website. that place is seriously backwards with their weird flip flop between the 45 names they use and inability to calculate shipping. I might use them about once every 5 years, as a last choice. I can certainly understand that. Decades ago Newark was very nice to me. I gave them all the business i could afford at the time; i had to ride my bicycle there and back. All of the times i have dealt with them since has not been a problem. Just not very frequent. ?-) I did recently get a 13 cent part from them, and some other stuff. they were pretty friendly when I phoned in the order. The other thing that's obnoxious about all those distributors is most claim to carry all parts, but what's in stock is a different story. It was never like that back in the printed catalogs day. I'm not going to special orer 24,999 "spare" diodes, but thanks for listing a product you have no intention of actually stocking. |
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