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Digi-Key has changed and it is not very good
Bud:
Digikey used to have one of the best if not the best search engine. Amazon is the one that has absolutely horrible search.
radar_macgyver:
Another quirk of the 'marketplace' is that DK will not quote you prices for a marketplace item. If you upload a .csv file with a bunch of part numbers, any 'marketplace' item gets silently dropped. The project I'm working on now requires that I get quotes for all items, this cost me a bunch of time trying to sort out; eventually had to get a separate order just for the 'marketplace' stuff.
Also, all the JS based filtering is apparently too much for Firefox to handle, so clicking the back button is equivalent to removing all filters.
drussell:
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--- Quote from: SilverSolder on December 02, 2020, 02:55:37 pm ---If Digikey kept stock for the marketplace participants
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But that's what DK does for the main suppliers. How is that different from their actual business?
The whole point of marketplace is for DK to not handler storage and shiping.
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I presume the traditional model would be that DK buys inventory from the main suppliers, as opposed to having the suppliers place the inventory with them on consignment?
If they could get suppliers to work on that basis, they would free up capital otherwise locked up in inventory.
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What makes you think Digikey is currently the one financing all their inventory?
I highly doubt they're ever directly the ones paying for most of their "in stock" merchandise before it is sold.
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--- Quote from: ataradov on December 02, 2020, 06:11:59 pm ---[...]
The whole point of marketplace is for DK to not handler storage and shiping.
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The storage and shipping (and the web site, and their inventory management system!) is exactly what most commenters here seem to value about DigiKey. So, by getting the marketplace customers to provide inventory "for free", DK can grow without the capital cost of buying all that inventory themselves... just like Amazon, who they appear to be inspired by. No?
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No, no no... You don't seem to understand. The whole point of these people moving to a "marketplace" model is so that they don't have to warehouse things. It's not mostly about which entity has the cost of those parts on their books, it is about the cost of storing those parts.
If a manufacturer could just send on all their excess inventory for the likes of Digikey to "hold onto" for them until it's sold, what would stop them from just sloughing off all their stuff that doesn't move quickly, any unnecessary inventory that their major clients don't need today, off onto the likes of Digikey's free warehouse-my-shit program under your scenario.... That's NOT what they're doing with "marketplace." If I want one of the items they're hocking in their "marketplace" I will just go directly to that supplier and save the 25% cut that Digikey is trying to take. :palm:
Digikey won't ever be warehousing any of this "marketplace" stuff!!! It will not be "fullfilled by Digikey" !!!
If it were, I would be able to order it directly from their stock!
Whoever is now in charge at Digikey apparently has some kind of long-term wet-dream goal of just taking a 25% cut of everything that gets ordered though their portal, without actually having to warehouse anything or do the logistics of shipping it out. It is a fundamental shift in the mentality for a supplier like Digikey.
RIP, Digikey... It's been a slice... :'(
You will be missed...
What's Mouser's shipping system to Canada usually like? I suppose I'll try them for my next order.
drussell:
--- Quote from: SilverSolder on December 02, 2020, 09:26:39 pm ---
--- Quote from: floobydust on December 02, 2020, 08:30:34 pm ---For 25% commission, Digi-Key whores out their brand name, best in the business.
Are the Marketplace vendors or products vetted, stocked, warrantied by Digi-Key? Or just drop-shipping.
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That is the deciding factor, right? - if it is just drop shipping, they are "whoring out their brand" as you so succinctly put it. On the other hand, if they do more than drop shipping, they would be adding value.
Note that Amazon adds value with their Fulfillment by Amazon model, which is valuable enough that I often choose Amazon over eBay for that reason alone (fast and reliable shipping).
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They're just whoring out their brand with "marketplace", they're doing nothing more than taking your order, processing your payment and sending it on to the other entity to send to you on that third party's terms, taking a 25% commission in the process.
This is NOT fulfillment by Digikey. This is the worst of the Amazon "Marketplace" where you buy something from China "through" Amazon that you could have got directly on Ali for 1/3 the price.
RIP, Digikey... :'(
olkipukki:
DK is almost ready to became full-time "FBA" ::)
--- Quote ---Digi-Key breaks ground on 2.2 million square foot Product Distribution Center expansion. First package from new facility is projected to ship in mid-late 2021.
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