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| pcmad:
why use fucking java script link for navigation (javascript:void(0)) its bad for SEO and we as engineers like links to right right open new tab to look for like component and tab hopping to compare product it seems rs web designer love to wank off to show off there ego to compensate for there SHORT CUMMINGS :-DD |
| Refrigerator:
I wonder how does this impact their business. I assume a website as bad as this will turn customers away immediately but that is my opinion as an EE. What does the average joe think of such a website? Do those cringe-tastic descriptions above each section help them out any? Because they do seem like they're trying to explain the bare basics to someone who knows absolutely nothing like "Ooga booga small signal go in transistor. Transistor make signal BIG :blah: ". But then you have to wonder what those people are doing there in the first place, because surely there are better places to learn about electronics other than the section description in RS :-// |
| Simon:
Unfortunately it will not impact their business much at least not for a while. Most sales will come from the assembly contractors or people paying over the odds for their ironmongery. So they likely make their money on big items that are easy to find or assemblers putting in large orders directly to them without going through the site. But those assemblers are employing people with little more skill than the people working at RS (oh how I want to laugh when I ring up to complain about the site and some ditzy customer service agent says that they can help me find the part I want). So assemblers like to have BOM's with distributor stock numbers, Newbury have become champs at this when they wrote in stating that a micrel LDO was now obsolete. This was because they had a farnell number. Farnell in their infinite wisdom set the stock of these regulators to 0 and stated that they were obsolete. Then they duplicated the listing with the live stock and put Microchip down as the manufacturer as they bought micrell out. So it took me seconds to find the replacement for them by simply searching for the manufacturers part number rather than the stock code. So RS will in the future be loosing sales when products being made now disappear and we are making products designed at a time when the RS website was unusable so other stockists numbers are on the BOM. Personally I refuse to put stock codes on my BOM's, it's insane to reference a number that could be changed in years to come. I always put the MPN and go to some lengths to make sure that it is the correct full number baring the TP or R or whatever they put or i will just put all the options. I just had an LT part that has the tape and reel suffix before the lead free suffix :palm: so I can't have an MPN that just has some character's missing off the end, the extra characters appear to have more significance than they do. But I try..... |
| Refrigerator:
--- Quote from: Simon on August 05, 2021, 07:35:15 am ---So RS will in the future be loosing sales when products being made now disappear and we are making products designed at a time when the RS website was unusable so other stockists numbers are on the BOM. Personally I refuse to put stock codes on my BOM's, it's insane to reference a number that could be changed in years to come. I always put the MPN and go to some lengths to make sure that it is the correct full number baring the TP or R or whatever they put or i will just put all the options. --- End quote --- Exactly my thought. Right now manufacturers go to RS just to buy parts wholesale, they don't have to search for anything because they have the BOM. But the engineers who design the product are the ones who set what parts are to be bought and from where. So if RS website continues being crap it will put off engineers from using it and the next generation of products will no longer have parts supplied by RS. |
| Simon:
that is what I tried explaining to them on the phone. I am an engineer, not a buyer, the buyers will buy what I tell them too. Piss me off and the buyers won't have any orders for you. I neglected to point out that I would never be so stupid as to use a stockist number in the first place. But when I get requests from assemblers for a substitute part they need to order now to make stuff for us the last site I use is RS and at that time RS directly losses a production order and the assembler will likely change the BOM to reflect the last stockist's number they bought it from - bye bye RS. |
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