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| ConKbot:
This marketplace stuff needs to fuck off and die. After seeing newegg marketplace being full of stuff with scam prices, and listings and direct import tat labeled as "equivalent" or "compatible" or other similar ways to weasel into search results, I want nothing to do with 3rd parties selling components. If I wanted trash components labeled falsely, I'd stick with Amazon ebay or aliexpress. |
| tooki:
--- Quote from: james_s on October 10, 2020, 06:20:41 pm ---I absolutely hate the "marketplace" trend where you have to be so careful about who you are actually buying items from. I first noticed this with Newegg which has been my go-to for computer parts, you have to go out of your way to find stuff sold BY NEWEGG. I have not noticed this with Digikey yet but maybe it depends what you're looking for. The thing that does drive me nuts about Digikey is how they changed it a while back so that the parametric search parameters are hidden and I have to click Show More EVERY SINGLE TIME I search for a part, it's infuriating. I don't know what they were thinking, it's clear that whoever they had design their website is not an engineer and has no idea how engineers search for parts. It's not the same as shopping for a tshirt, ALL of the parameters matter, every time. --- End quote --- At least Digi-Key’s marketplace seems to consist only of carefully curated vendors. DK has supported drop-shipping from manufacturers for a while, and DK itself handles logistics for some manufacturers’ own stores. (I ordered a TI book from the TI website, and while the name “Digi-Key” didn’t appear anywhere, it shipped in the same exact types of packing materials as DK (same slashed paper padding, blue zip bags, and label layouts), and shipped from Thief River Falls...) I have nearly entirely stopped using Amazon because of the marketplace BS. (It’s maddening for Switzerland because FBA vendors cannot ship here, yet there’s no way to eliminate them from search. So other than for books, I’d say that these days, 90% of the search results on Amazon.de (the Amazon for Switzerland) can’t actually be shipped here.) IMHO they’re the poster child of marketplace done wrong. DK seems to choose carefully, and makes it trivially easy to exclude them, but I’ve never needed to yet, since only a vanishingly tiny percentage of DK’s SKUs are marketplace. DK’s parametric search isn’t perfect, but it’s hands-down the best of any electronics distributor, and possibly the best I’ve ever seen anywhere, for any kind of product. P.S. it looks like DK is testing the updated UI on US customers only. DK’s site for Switzerland, for example, is still using the old interface. |
| 460voltclub:
I could navigate the site very well and some patience went a long way. When I saw the Marketplace option and NTE products I knew I had just been thrust into China knock off land. I don't want substandard Chinese shit although you can't hardly get away from it. I want a supplier that cares about the quality of their products and screens out the crap but I think Digi-Key just fell off the cliff. |
| floobydust:
--- Quote from: KE5FX on October 10, 2020, 11:18:17 pm ---If you have input to offer, be sure to provide (polite) feedback via the tab at right: --- End quote --- Several times I've reported website bugs to Digikey. After my time and energy to take screen caps, write up an explanation, trying things on three different computers and different OS, the response is: "have you tried clearing your browser's cache?" :palm: At this point, it's just insulting because the support person doesn't know the difference between their search engine results and what a browser does. It's just a colossal time sink. It's clear they've hired Zuckerburg's crew for website development/analytics and are copying Amazon because they are unoriginal. I don't see any forums there to rate/discuss/review the parts they sell. Look ahead - Next are Digikey-brand components. What's a little CapXon with a red wrapper. |
| tszaboo:
--- Quote from: floobydust on October 11, 2020, 07:39:40 pm --- --- Quote from: KE5FX on October 10, 2020, 11:18:17 pm ---If you have input to offer, be sure to provide (polite) feedback via the tab at right: --- End quote --- Several times I've reported website bugs to Digikey. After my time and energy to take screen caps, write up an explanation, trying things on three different computers and different OS, the response is: "have you tried clearing your browser's cache?" :palm: At this point, it's just insulting because the support person doesn't know the difference between their search engine results and what a browser does. It's just a colossal time sink. It's clear they've hired Zuckerburg's crew for website development/analytics and are copying Amazon because they are unoriginal. I don't see any forums there to rate/discuss/review the parts they sell. Look ahead - Next are Digikey-brand components. What's a little CapXon with a red wrapper. --- End quote --- Like Multicomp, RS-Pro and the others? I lost it completely, when all these adafruit and sparkfun boards statrted showing up in the search results. --- Quote from: james_s on October 11, 2020, 05:51:47 am ---Excessive white space is one of my biggest UI pet peeves. The trend for years has been a sprinkle of random UI elements floating aimlessly in a vast sea of blinding white. A lot of basic functionality hidden in obscure little hamburger menus or sliding panes. I much prefer the airplane instrument panel design philosophy, all of the information laid out right in front of you, instruments and controls grouped by related functions, often cordoned off with lines, there is no digging needed, it's all right there where you can see anything you need at a glance. Then the latest crazy is "dark mode" which is just a band aid over piss poor UI design. If it wasn't barren and blinding white in the first place there would be no need for dark mode which is the opposite problem, everything dim and subdued floating in a sea of dark gray. --- End quote --- Oh don even let me get started on web development. So for the last two years, I cannot convince our software team, that dumb "let the computer decide" autoscaling on graphs is not good. We have vertical scales like "16.1 16.6 17.0 17.5" because how the data is, and rounding problems. And then we got this gift that keeps on giving, our new website designer. So this bliss, had the idea, that we will replace all fonts with this beautiful, corporate approved font. We have GPS coordinates, and complete excel sheet sized tables, that people work with. decided to use this unreadable font, that gave me complete dyslexia. It took us 3 months to convince her to only use these for the headlines. Sometimes I thinkk we should just slap these designers back to the earth. We just want a usable, Web 1.0 website, that doesnt have like button and doesnt overwrite the scroll functionality. We dont need your creativity, we need a website. You can create a my little pony fanclub website on your own time, and be creative there. |
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