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Digi-Key has changed and it is not very good
floobydust:
--- Quote from: floobydust on January 07, 2021, 05:35:11 am ---[...] "Phototransistor LED Indication" ??? One is a Marketplace item "Color: Phototransistor" :palm:
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--- Quote from: _joost_ on January 07, 2021, 06:55:49 am ---There is a filter selection to exclude marketplace products
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It raises a good question- who looks after the quality of the Marketplace data? I could see cowboy vendors filling things up with garbage.
james_s:
--- Quote from: SVFeingold on January 07, 2021, 06:52:45 am ---Same for manufacturer-specific footprint codenames (for common footprints) getting mixed into the list. Which can actually be useful sometimes, but mostly just gets in the way. I get that it's a huge amount of work to do for all the parts already in the system, but it needs to happen sooner or later.
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That drives me nuts. I have a hard enough time remembering all of the standard packages without trying to remember the half dozen other designations for the same footprint.
Terry Bites:
Its not just them. RS and Farnell have completely fkd their websites over the past few years. Have they forgotten who uses their sites? I seriously wonder if they have an engineer on their staff!
james_s:
--- Quote from: bombledmonk on January 05, 2021, 09:21:57 pm ---You actually ran across one of the "lucky" unique parts that seemed just oddball enough for you to investigate. A lot of really cool parts don't really have a great way to "market" themselves on their own manufacturer's websites, let alone distributors. Out of curiosity I just checked that Lumex part, it has enough sales to justify shelf space. That said, lots of products end up at a metal recovery recycler or going back to the manufacturer.
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That's unfortunate. I like the idea of a surplus section where all sorts of random slow movers are sold at rock bottom prices, say scrap value plus enough overhead to cover the expense of packing them up. Turning finished parts back into raw materials is a far less efficient form of recycling than getting them into the hands of people who could do something with them. A "surplus bin" would be a great draw to a section where all of that marketplace stuff could be offered alongside remnants and slow movers where it would not be so out of place. Engineers designing new products aren't going to want surplus parts and they're not likely to want marketplace stuff either but the hobbyists and "makers" looking for bargains are exactly the sort who might consider the marketplace stuff.
floobydust:
Managing inventory is very difficult, just look at all the brick-and-mortar retailers going bankrupt because they'd bungled it.
If a part isn't selling - there are many reasons "management by numbers" can screw up:
Inventory shows part in stock, but actually there's none or trade-size incorrect (reels, tape, bulk, single). You can't sell what you don't have, or packaged wrong for typical production.
A part out of stock looks like a loser, it's not selling better drop it. My grocery store sells out of items fast, then thinks the item is selling poorly :palm: and drops it from their lineup.
Inventory shows part in stock, but actually there's an error in specs/category. You can't sell what customers can't find.
Inventory shows part in stock, but it's been replaced by a new part. You wouldn't design-in old parts, so it gets orphaned.
When parts get discontinued, the price gets jacked up to make money from desperate purchasers I guess, until Engineering gives an alternate p/n on the BoM. I don't see any discounted/surplus pricing at all on Digi-Key and assume they then sell the stuff to surplus dealers, probably Marketplace Vendors lol. I get annoyed the items have gone up not down in price.
The New Product intros are nice, but there's nothing highlighting unique, cool parts or the lineup afterwards.
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