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Digi-Key has changed and it is not very good
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ataradov:
The correct way to introduce a marketplace feature is to have an option in the profile to permanently disable it. It is fine to have it on by default.

If you claim that this will reduce your revenue, then your intention IS to scam me, since my intention is to never buy from marketplace, so no revenue from me anyway unless I'm not careful.
T3sl4co1l:
I have no problem buying from marketplace if it meets the same specs I'm shopping for, and the same sales guarantee (more or less).  Hmm, I should check that latter one, I imagine it might be different than direct.

Amazon is useless for making any kind of informed decision; I suspect, intentionally so.

Tim
helius:
I've found for some recent orders that Arrow and Newark had better availability/prices for the parts I wanted than Digikey or Mouser, and it isn't any harder to deal with them. Newark's parametric search is... primitive, and Arrow's is slow and jumpy, but that isn't necessarily a deal breaker for me (since I also use comparison sites with parametric search, like Octopart).
Smoky:
It's weird that this topic came up. I just placed my third order with Arrow in the past 5 days.

$50+ and it's free shipping plus they sent me two 10% off codes in the same amount of time.

I'm fairly new to electronics and stick to audio projects mostly.

Arrow's prices are almost 50% cheaper than Digi-Key/Mouser for the stuff I buy and collect.

I've been buying small bridge rectifiers, diodes of all kinds, resistors like the MRS25's, voltage regulators, and C0G capacitors from 10pf and up along with PP and SMR caps and a broad selection of premium electrolytics. It's been great.

It didn't take long to accrue a nice array of products with the help of Arrow's deals.
 
And is it just me, but sometimes I'll use a website's basic search process and not find the part, but if I plug in the exact part number, the part shows up in stock :scared:
eevcandies:
Their price sorting is busted...try sorting by price, say low to high, its almost random.  I want to see only cut tape-parts...the selection is ignored...I want to see pricing listed at 1000, also ignored.
Some links show a "wrong price"   the link for a diode says unit price of $0.035 but after clicking on the link, the unit price is now $0.14  & $0.035 is nowhere to be seen at all.

The columns for voltage regulator looks like 10X .......T    O     O   W         I      D     E  (seriously):

NUMBER OF REGULATORS        VOLTAGE -INPUT (MAX)    VOLTAGE -OUTPUT (MIN/FIXED)     VOLTAGE - OUTPUT (MAX)
 1                                             8V                                  6V                                               7V


what idiot set up these columns?
       

 
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