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You've never been 'reversed biased' ?

George H.

Evasion noted.

Perhaps you are that dense so I'll try to speak slower....

Why would someone pay more just to buy from DigiKey? Time has a value but if DigiKey doesn't stock it (or time isn't important), there's no point in paying their premium.

I should say not. I always conduct myself in the proper direction.

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Ah, a real straight arrow. You follow the holes and avoid the electrons?

George H.

I can see why they stopped printing the catalog. Online, there's no limit to how many products they can list but not supply.

John

You can make a bigger catalog.

Greg

Well,

- you can still order it

- you can still compare pricing and specification

- it's just a tick box to suppress them

John

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John Devereux

The tick box suppresses ones they are temporarily out of stock on as well as those they have no intention of stocking.

Best regards, Spehro Pefhany

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George Herold a écrit :

No, he's the electron, since he fills the holes...

What we don't is how often he's tunneling when commuting.

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30-40% is enough to interest me, even though it isn't "my" money. That's about DK's premium.

No, they're pretty good for stocking items. I don't mind the 30-40% if I need it now.

I *always* do better. As I say, usually by 30-40%, sometimes more.

Time is the only reason to buy from DK.

No "dickering" needed. Just send out quotes. I'd tell the reps what I wanted to pay and they'd normally beat it.

Sure. Again, I don't design-in components where there is no supply and the "in stock" search option works. I thought you gave up on Maxim too? ;-)

There is also the "non-stock" category, which is not the same as qty=0. OTOH, if there is no stock anywhere, it doesn't get designed in so it takes care of itself.

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Perhaps, but not by much. The highest volume product was 5K/yr. Most were in the tens to hundreds. Total volume matters, getting distys' interest, though. If you're buying only cut tape, here and there, then yeah, you're stuck paying through the nose.

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Certainly if you're a major user but small shops can get better deals through disties. This is particularly true for some bigger ticket items, like processors and FPGAs.

200 pieces isn't a lot but you can't go by the catalog prices (Arrow's web prices, for example, are insane). Only fools full retail. ;-)

My complaint with the 'in stock' box is it doesn't differentiate between 'non stocked' and '(temporarily) out of stock' You can sort it out by looking at the 'non stocked' but that won't show up if it's out of stock until you uncheck the 'in stock' box and compare. It's still WAY better than Mouser. Had two Mouser reps at work last year and I told them why I buy more from Digikey -- IT'S EASIER.

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You are Esaki right.

--Winston

Last week I ordered Wiznet W5100 from Future because the initial search indicated that it is in stock.

When I proceeded with order it was revealed to me that it was actually in "Reserve stock" which by their definition means that it stocked at another Future facility. That would incur 5-7 days delay. No problem. I ordered the part. Next day I got email from them that the part is on backorder and will be shipped on January 16.

I phoned back and could not get a sensible explanation from them why this is so.

BTW Wiznet sells small quantity directly. I ordered from them and it is on its way.

-- Boris