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Digi-Key has changed and it is not very good
SilverSolder:
--- Quote from: eevcandies on October 13, 2020, 08:46:09 pm ---I guess the "Supplier" column doesn't do it for you?
NO it does not ...that is the component supplier the digikey parts dont' say Digikey...they say different suppliers (for example littlefuse, Belden ,wire, texas Inst) They make no indiscation who is a "marketplace"
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Yes, they say "supplier" but in the past it often meant "manufacturer".
This needs to be expanded - maybe another column - to indicate Marketplace or Digikey. How hard can that be? .... :D
ataradov:
--- Quote from: SilverSolder on October 13, 2020, 08:52:39 pm ---This needs to be expanded - maybe another column - to indicate Marketplace or Digikey. How hard can that be? .... :D
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Very hard, actually. You want to do as much as possible to hide the scam when you are scamming. If you make it too obvious, people may not get tricked into getting transistors in a bag.
dnwheeler:
--- Quote from: eevcandies on October 13, 2020, 07:39:23 pm ---Digkey isn't some brand new company that didn't exist on the internet for the past 20 years, they certainly know who buys their components....or do they?
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They do, but the web designers probably don't. Like many companies, I suspect Digi-Key contracts out their web development to someone who doesn't understand their business or customers. The contractor then treats the project like other similar projects they have done in the past. In this case, the project fit into a generic "e-commerce website" model with (in their mind) overly complicated filtering criteria.
Also, in the case of the results grid (which includes sorting, column widths, etc.) they probably used some pre-existing generic grid control rather than writing one the better meets the needs of their customers.
tooki:
--- Quote from: eevcandies on October 13, 2020, 05:16:26 pm --- We understand the pain points. The best place to give us feedback or report bugs is the feedback tab
That's a rather pathetic response...it shows quality control at Digikey is non-existent, or the people who made the site are incompetent & should be sent packing.
Doesn't anyone there pay attention AT ALL to what is being rolled out?
People will quit using digikey & go to Mouser or elsewhere & the end of Digikey. Now they want to allow others to come to some new marketplace--maybe to to mix in & sell gray/suspect chips there. There are so many problems it is hard to fathom or even to list them all.
Apparently nobody at digikey bothered to even try their own website.
Search for a part where you want to only see cut tape, since that is what you are going to be ordering....instead the results are 3-4 times as long. Why? Because now it ignores the request to show cut tape parts & also shows 3 or 4 other types. So the listing is 10 miles long because the FILTER DOES NOT WORK.
Ask for pricing at 1000...it may give it to you or it may not. Half the time is does not work. Sort by price, the prices will be out of order.
A part search will be display a part with a unit price of 0.07 cents....click on the provided link & it inconsistently shows a unit price of 0.25 !!
The pricing information sometimes appears under the supplier name!!!
You can't see part info on the screen anymore, since the columns are so wide, many of them are not being displayed.
One pic shows sorted prices are out of order (I've seen some where they are heavily scrambled), then after some scrolling the prices don't even appear under the correct column!!
The list of problems goes on and on and on and on. This has been happening for weeks. There seems to be no accountability at Digikey.
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Oh my god, take a chill pill before you have a stroke and die on us!
The list is not showing you parts that aren’t cut tape — they’ve finally concatenated different packaging of the same PART into one line item, so you’re simply seeing that other packaging exists. It’s not a part for which no cut tape exists!
As for the price: as I said above, ENTER YOUR QUANTITY on the product page. The price shown at the top is the price for the quantity entered. The price breaks are in a tabbed section farther down.
--- Quote from: ataradov on October 13, 2020, 08:55:56 pm ---
--- Quote from: SilverSolder on October 13, 2020, 08:52:39 pm ---This needs to be expanded - maybe another column - to indicate Marketplace or Digikey. How hard can that be? .... :D
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Very hard, actually. You want to do as much as possible to hide the scam when you are scamming. If you make it too obvious, people may not get tricked into getting transistors in a bag.
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There’s no evidence that DK is allowing alternative suppliers of the same parts. Accusing them of scamming is a serious allegation, and there is zero evidence of this.
“Bag”, aka “bulk” packaging. Nothing to look at here.
--- Quote from: eevcandies on October 13, 2020, 08:46:09 pm ---I guess the "Supplier" column doesn't do it for you?
NO it does not ...that is the component supplier the digikey parts dont' say Digikey...they say different suppliers (for example littlefuse, Belden ,wire, texas Inst) They make no indiscation who is a "marketplace"
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Clear the “Marketplace product: include” checkbox and they’re gone.
ataradov:
--- Quote from: tooki on October 13, 2020, 09:19:34 pm ---Probably because nothing you’ve searched for has any marketplace vendors. There is VERY little marketplace product in DK right now. You can easily verify this by clearing the “include marketplace” checkbox and noticing that the number of results remains unchanged.
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The transistors shown above have 2 non-DK items. Can you easily spot them? Not really. You can if you are very familiar with the way DK names their parts. Like all transistors always start with "TRANS". But if you are not familiar with the naming scheme, you are screwed.
They are clearly doing the marketing thing where they pretend that the shitty behavior that will generate them some money is actually good. They clearly default to the settings that will show the most products regardless of where that what people actually want.
Also, what do you mean by this:
--- Quote from: tooki on October 13, 2020, 09:19:34 pm ---There’s no evidence that DK is allowing alternative suppliers of the same parts. Accusing them of scamming is a serious allegation, and there is zero evidence of this.
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Again, look at those transistors, there are 2 different alternative suppliers.
And if I wanted to buy from NTE, I would buy from NTE. What is even the point of this whole thing? I can understand vendors selling unique parts that DK will never carry on their own. This would be actually cool. But why add other distributors?
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