Newark (All in One) opinions.

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Are you allowed to purchase from Digi-key? They are frequently mentioned as a good source for small quantities. Another possibility is Mouser.

Howard

Not quite sure what you mean by "back in the back that I used."

That's the beauty of online ordering; it can reflect real-time inventory. I'm guessing here but perhaps they were out of stock on a low demand item except for one or more complete reels/boxes/etc. and took the decision not to offer the items in quantities smaller than that.

Translation: We accept orders for any dollar amount and do not require that the order totals at least XX dollars (although a small handling fee may be added for orders below YY). Once upon a time, many places wouldn't accept orders for less than, say, $25.

Again, I'm guessing but they may not want to be stuck with a partial reel of 855 gizmos that they don't expect to be able to sell in the next decade or so.

Try

Even Digikey does this.

An item you once could buy onesies-twosies, now has a gigantic minimum. I suspect it has to do with how long they sit on the shelves, or possibly, for parts that are recently replaced with RoHS. Also, for brand new parts - where I guess DK & others have no idea if they'll be stuck with them...

The reverse is also true. Some items with large minimums occasionally become available in much smaller quantities.

-mpm

well, these are electrolytic caps we're trying to get and if memory serves they were listed for ~ $5 bucks each. (330 Uf 100 VDC, high temperature, axle lead);

We picked out 2 different type of caps, same response for both items.

Seeing that we ordered 20 of each. I think a $200+ order should be enough for them to serve us.

We can do Digikey, Mouser, Electronx etc... how ever, main head quarters for some reason can't see to eye that warrants making an account with these people on as a normal supplier.

So what happens is we have a credit card that we can make limited purchases on. If How ever, we get a CER past, then we can buy from whom we want but that is like pulling teeth.

That means you can order 1 MOQ of anything. If they have transistors in singles for 2 cents, you can put in an order for 2 cents. If however the MOQ for another 2c transostor is 100, you have to pay $2.