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Digi-Key has changed and it is not very good
rsjsouza:
...and that's why I will keep giving my money to Mouser. Well, that and their conveniently located warehouse in Fort Worth, which gives me the extreme convenience of having parts next day.
I had two or three bad experiences with Digikey, thus I haven't visited their website in quite some time.
floobydust:
I strongly dislike Digikey's direction: now a bimbo website that looks pretty but bloated and slow AF with analytics and buggy Javascript that doesn't work well enough to even use the site many times. How's your mobile experience? Every week they mess around and cripple some aspect. Why waste so much money on web developers that don't even know or understand electronics, pico or micro? The Radix sort, the long columns with "5mm, 5.02mm, 5.05mm, 5.07mm, 5.12mm" are just stupid to click to death on when you simply want a 5mm part.
These small "marketplace" vendors I've never heard of are surely a backdoor for counterfeit or repackaged components. The whole reason to pay so much extra for Digikey is that the parts are authentic and traceable. If I want to buy cheaper, shady components I wouldn't bother with Digikey at all.
I think Supply Chain or Purchasers will be tempted to procure from Marketplace vendors because of the lower price or inventory (stock) they have, riding on Digikey's reputation or name as being OK. This is going to be another bombshell when Production calls and there are problems with the build. Who authorized the change?
Right now, Mouser's website is better for parametric searches most of the time. Although "sort by price" seems disabled?
tszaboo:
Well, at least they now list all the packaging under one part so thats good. It was incredibly annoying that yo searched for a part number, and it listed like 24 different parts, 3 with different package 4 different packaging, two temperature range... At least this is now down to 6 part.
rfdes:
Gee - I still like DigiKey very much. I've used DigiKey since the '70s when their catalog was nothing more that a single sheet of paper folded into quarters, stapled and then mailed. The back side of the sheet was the order form.
The clincher for me is DigiKey's policy of FREE shipping if you mail them a check instead of charging. They usually ship USPS but sometimes UPS. I can order a single 0.10 resistor and get it shipped free. The downside is that you have to wait for the mail service but that is typically not a big deal for me.
KE5FX:
--- Quote from: floobydust on October 10, 2020, 09:54:51 pm ---Right now, Mouser's website is better for parametric searches most of the time. Although "sort by price" seems disabled?
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I've never had problems sorting by price on either site. In general I still think DigiKey's search engine is a bit better than Mouser's. They certainly haven't improved things with the recent "Whitespace everywhere, moar whitespace, yo guys, crank up the whitespace" facelift, but I wouldn't say it's horribly broken. E.g., sorting by quantity available is among the more useful features of DigiKey's search engine and is still available. Mouser has never allowed that column to be selected for sorting, which is a bummer.
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It's safe to say that they don't read EEVBlog for input, but they do pay attention to feedback provided from links on their own site in my experience. If they're moving to an Amazon-style "Marketplace" model, that's a good reason to provide negative feedback, and plenty of it. If they want to act like Amazon, why shouldn't I just use Amazon?
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