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Mangozac:

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--- Quote from: KE5FX on January 24, 2023, 05:19:13 pm ---Octopart deserves a rant thread all its own.  Brokers with random names and equally-random invalid prices have taken the site over, presumably because they can pay for placement in the search results.  |O

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I just ignore anything on Octopart that's not a main distributor but yeah, they need some kind of "honesty survey" to see how many of these brokers legitimately have these parts.

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Or just some persistent setting to allow you to permanently filter only the sources you want.
KE5FX:

--- Quote from: Mangozac on January 24, 2023, 09:49:21 pm ---Or just some persistent setting to allow you to permanently filter only the sources you want.

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That's what I asked them for.  Save your bandwidth, they don't care.

exe:
I'm curious how hard could it be to create an alternative search engine for parts. I'd like to try making that, but that needs either cooperation with distributors (so that they are willing to provide their inventory, say, at least once a day), or find another way to source the data.

An alternative could be to grab data from websites, but that's far less reliable (they can, e.g., block requests).
AndyC_772:
From speaking to distributors, I'm led to believe that quite a bit of money changes hands each time you click on a link from Findchips to a distributor's listing.

I'm still bemused at how it is that RS seem to have become so bad at showing what they have in stock. When you search even on their own web site, it's impossible to filter by stock level. Yet the information is clearly there - you just have to find the product page for each order code, and only then do you get the little red banner that says "Ha! Fooled you, of course we don't actually have this part!".
tom66:

--- Quote from: AndyC_772 on January 25, 2023, 10:16:19 am ---I'm still bemused at how it is that RS seem to have become so bad at showing what they have in stock. When you search even on their own web site, it's impossible to filter by stock level. Yet the information is clearly there - you just have to find the product page for each order code, and only then do you get the little red banner that says "Ha! Fooled you, of course we don't actually have this part!".

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Even worse;  I'm relatively close to an RS trade counter, yet there is absolutely no way to filter on their websites, "Items at <X> trade counter for collection today".  I was at one of the trade counters, and I went through about 20 parts and they had 1 in stock, but you couldn't tell unless you'd asked the chap there whether they had 123-4567 in stock. 

I'm actually amazed they keep the trade counters open, given I've never seen more than one other car in the car park.  They could definitely make them more useful for same day electronics for nearby assembly houses and R&D and the like, but they don't keep much actual electronic components in stock.
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