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Digi-Key has changed and it is not very good
Zeyneb:
--- Quote from: floobydust on October 18, 2022, 06:56:22 pm ---Digi-Key's website focus is on analytics - not common sense or what customers really need. For years now.
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How do you know? What sources can you share to back up this claim.
floobydust:
Look at your web browser's load of the Digi-Key home page. But I believe you have the Data Protection Law GDPR which we don't have in North America.
I can see some of sites are all about analytics for tracking, others for security/fraud prevention and content providers, some are legit.
akamaiedge.net
analytics-egain.com
evgnet.com
go-mpulse.net
google.com
googleoptimize.com
mktossl.com
sift.com
tiqcdn.com
trustwave.com
youtube.com
...
If the staff and labour costs associated with analytics could be instead used to make the website a better experience, that would be great.
Who has access to the data mined, including scalpers, we don't know- as if it's private :-DD
EEVblog:
--- Quote from: KE5FX on October 18, 2022, 06:16:35 pm ---I'm all for DigiKey restricting sales to scalpers, but scalpers aren't going to order four or five pieces at a time, as St66666 did. Those safeguards should kick in when someone with little/no customer history orders hundreds or thousands of parts at full-retail prices.
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Err, what's wrong with someone purchasing something in bulk at full retail price from a company who's entire business model is bulk component supply?
thm_w:
--- Quote from: EEVblog on October 18, 2022, 09:50:40 pm ---
--- Quote from: KE5FX on October 18, 2022, 06:16:35 pm ---I'm all for DigiKey restricting sales to scalpers, but scalpers aren't going to order four or five pieces at a time, as St66666 did. Those safeguards should kick in when someone with little/no customer history orders hundreds or thousands of parts at full-retail prices.
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Err, what's wrong with someone purchasing something in bulk at full retail price from a company who's entire business model is bulk component supply?
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Nothing inherently wrong or not wrong, digikey is prioritizing long term business over short term profits.
Mass component scalping of new parts will end, eventually, and at that point scalpers disappear and you're back to your regular customer base. Some of us regular customers remember how we were treated.
Same sort of issue with Nvidia and GPU miners. Crypto GPU mining is essentially dead at this point, so catering to that transient market could have been a bad idea long term.
KE5FX:
Nothing wrong with it, except at some point you'll get a better price from a manufacturer's rep.
Just pointing out that somebody buying 4 pieces is probably not a broker or a reseller, while somebody buying 4000 might be. Suspecting/flagging/accusing small-time buyers of being a reseller is not good business.
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