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| JohnnyMalaria:
--- Quote from: james_s on March 10, 2021, 02:00:07 am --- --- Quote from: JohnnyMalaria on March 09, 2021, 09:43:11 pm ---Amazon is different. There isn't really the equivalent of buying one 0803 capacitor. They are sold in whatever quantity the vendor has prepacked them. In contrast, someone at Mouser has to find the reel or tray or whatever bulk supply the capacitors come in, extract just one, repackage it, label it etc. It's not just a simple case of pulling an item off a shelf and throwing it in a box. --- End quote --- That doesn't matter, most people don't analyze it to that level, you said you don't get why people expect things to be business as usual and I provided an answer, I never said there are not valid reasons. That said, despite my gripes with their website, I've placed several orders from Digikey throughout the pandemic and never experienced any delays that I noticed. --- End quote --- So once you give your opinion, that's the end of it? I thought this was a forum - a place for exchange of ideas? Perhaps if people did stop to think a bit more, they wouldn't be so disappointed and realize not everything in this world works to their schedule or expectations, especially in unusual times. |
| peter-h:
BTW I think that video above about US sellers "having" to register for VAT etc is nonsense. Legally this cannot be enforced and never will be. It is something pushed by the intermediaries who make a percentage off the revenue stream :) And they do perform a useful service in that the customer can be sure he has no extra costs at his end. What Mouser did, by invoicing from the UK, with VAT added, is reduced the paperwork for their UK customers, but actually any business which does any import and export will already have a smooth system for this. In Sage Accounts it is called tax code T0 :) |
| JohnnyMalaria:
--- Quote from: peter-h on March 10, 2021, 10:32:11 am ---BTW I think that video above about US sellers "having" to register for VAT etc is nonsense. Legally this cannot be enforced and never will be. --- End quote --- It's not nonsense if you want to do things correctly and legally. |
| peter-h:
Can you explain how a) the UK might be able to suspend international trade (the right to simply sell something to somebody in another country) b) the UK might acquire jurisdiction over a supplier in another country I am sure this stuff is bollocks. International shipping will carry on as before. The only issue is that the recipient might get import charges he wasn't expecting, but that's been the case since for ever, and all the regulars have known that particularly w.r.t. purchases from the US. It is quite normal to studiously avoid US (and chinese) sellers on Ebay for example because you just know you are going to get hit with something - until Ebay started doing the new "everything prepaid" scheme. Specifically w.r.t. brexit (not the topic of this Mouse thread) some people used to buy mail order from the mainland and now they can't do that without potential hidden charges. |
| JohnnyMalaria:
--- Quote from: peter-h on March 10, 2021, 02:43:21 pm ---Can you explain how a) the UK might be able to suspend international trade (the right to simply sell something to somebody in another country) b) the UK might acquire jurisdiction over a supplier in another country I am sure this stuff is bollocks. International shipping will carry on as before. The only issue is that the recipient might get import charges he wasn't expecting, but that's been the case since for ever, and all the regulars have known that particularly w.r.t. purchases from the US. It is quite normal to studiously avoid US (and chinese) sellers on Ebay for example because you just know you are going to get hit with something - until Ebay started doing the new "everything prepaid" scheme. Specifically w.r.t. brexit (not the topic of this Mouse thread) some people used to buy mail order from the mainland and now they can't do that without potential hidden charges. --- End quote --- I guess we just need to let this pan out for a year and see what happens. Some people who conduct minor trade with the UK have chosen for good reason to no longer sell to the UK. |
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