pain of MOQs & distributors

I honestly don't mean any ill will - I thought it was an excellent idea when you mooted it. I just wondered because it didn't seem to have as much interest as you and I hoped.

It didn't help that my first visit to the site, after a month, yielded exactly zero parts listed, because you have to select a category before "Browse" works. I didn't have a part in mind, so I hit Browse, and nada. Shouldn't be hard to make that more helpful...?

That's OK clifford. I was (and still am) hoping the site will expand a lot further.

I guess these type of sites take a while to actually get going, after all we (electronic component users) are a very very small percentage of the population and an even small percentage of us actually want to sell our excess inventory.

Interestingly there have been several people (and some companies) that have asked for access/credits and have never actually listed anything. (If anyone out there reading this is one of those people then please list something!!)

I considered having a "general" browse all, and could still do it, but decided against it as it could result in some rather large pages. Ok, perhaps not when there were only 10 or 20 parts on the site, but even now there is about 450 parts listed and that would make a reasonable size list on it's own. So the decision was to allow browsing on a section as presumably most people would know roughly what they were looking for.

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"More helpful" doesn't mean it has to work, but it should give a message saying why it didn't work... even to gray the Browse button until a category is selected, though that requires JS. Both would be best. If you need help with the HTML, just ask.

OK. I've changed the ozcomponents.com site a little.

Now there is just a find button and no browse button.

This gives the following options:

1) Select a component type and enter a part number and the system will try to find the part number. 2) Select a component type and enter NO part number and the system will find all parts of that type. 3) Select NO component type and enter a part number and the system will try to find the part number. 4) Select NO component type and enter NO part number and the system will find all parts of every type.

The search can be modified using the "Result contains", "Result starts with" and "Result is exact match" radio buttons.

Hopefully this will make the site easier to use. I don't want to use Javascript particularly as some people just don't have it enabled as a norm (me included), so I'll stick to plain HTML for the browser side of things.

Thanks for the feedback.

Alan

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Good effort - that works well!

Thanks! Always open to suggestions.

Alan

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