Newark/Element 14 in the US

[Bassman59]

I live in the southwestern desert of the United States. I usually order from Mouser and Digikey but I decided to see if Newark had some parts I need. And they did -- they have a larger selection of knobs than the other two, and some parts were significantly cheaper (like PGA2320 was $12/each from Newark and nearly $20 from Mouser). So I added a few things to the cart, and it gave me a quote of nearly $40 for USPS or FedEx ground shipping. Given that Mouser would've charged $6.99, I wonder:

Does Newark/Element 14 actually ship from the UK? I realize that they're part of Farnell but I thought that Newark was still a US-based operation.

thanks.

[wreeve]

wow.....in the UK we pay £15 for shipping from the USA (Newark); UPS in about 2 days. For Farnell items it's free next day. Don't tell me we get a better deal in the UK for once!

[TimFox]

Newark does ship from US inventory or from Farnell iinventory in UK--it should be called out in the shopping cart.

[rdl]

Check to make sure where it was actually coming from. And be advised, they operate from a state that charges sales tax on all internet orders even if they are sent out of state to a person living elsewhere.

[Farley]

Check the price on the parts you ordered from Newark. If the parts come from UK Stock they will incur an extra $20 charge.

[Bassman59]

Check the price on the parts you ordered from Newark. If the parts come from UK Stock they will incur an extra $20 charge.

Ah, that was exactly it -- one of the parts was listed as coming from UK stock. Now the shipping is down to $12.

Thanks!

[Ampera]

Still, 12 dollars? I haven't ordered too many electronic parts, but that seems a bit of a rip.

[miguelvp]

I order yesterday some parts and my shipping cost USPS priority mail was only $5.78, did you select anything other than basic shipping or where you items large in volume?

Mine were just 105 small components so they probably fit in a medium size envelope.

[ajb]

Newark is bizarre about shipping from Farnell.  Sometimes you can order things from UK stock no problems, but other times not so much.  Recently I was looking at a part that was insufficient stock in the US, but plenty at Farnell, and I couldn't get them to just drop ship the balance.  The guy I spoke to on the phone told me they simply had no mechanism for doing that, and they'd have to go through an internal backorder that would take a couple of weeks.

[Bassman59]

I order yesterday some parts and my shipping cost USPS priority mail was only $5.78, did you select anything other than basic shipping or where you items large in volume?

Neither! It checked the prices for USPS standard, UPS ground and FedEx ground, all to a business address. The prices were all within fifty cents of each other. And the parts were nothing large, just some small rotary encoders (for some reason, Newark stocked the flavor of Bourns PEC09 that I wanted, when neither Digikey nor Mouser had it) and some antistatic bags. It's the size package that Mouser would send out for $7. Weird.

[rdl]

 Was the Sales Tax included with the shipping maybe?

[Bassman59]

Was the Sales Tax included with the shipping maybe?

No, that's a separate line item.

[calexanian]

They are a pretty strange company that way. I suspect a good amount of their inventory is in Asia and small amounts are metered out to the rest of the world, but for example Newark has more in stock of certain things than Farnell and depending on where they are in the system its hard to divert or break shipments that are lets say going to Farnell and send some over to the US. I have no real formulated opinion or specific examples but something just feels different about them. Call it a gut feeling.. Or maybe that's just indigestion.