I think many of us have a love/hate relationship with Digikey...they're
kinda expensive when you're doing production runs, for example. Some of the
part selections are dubious, too.

Last night I needed some parts @ ~17.30hr EST and plugged my order into
Digikey. At 07.30hr EST this morning my parts were being put on a truck at
the courier depot here in Toronto.

Now, lots of companies can do overnight shipping, but let's bear a couple of
points in mind:

(1) I live in Canada. So this was an import. Digikey have arrangements to
preclear and prepay taxes and duties, leaving me from having to scramble for
a credit card when the courier arrives.

(2) They charge CDN$8.00 (~US$6.00) for overnight delivery. If you live in
Canada, you'll know that we rarely get to see overnight courier fees that
low.

(3) Digikey are in MN and I'm in Toronto! I have no idea if they've got an
arrangement to do localized holding of parts or something....I presume that
it's all centralized though.

Anyhoo, I'm just kind of a happy camper this morning as I have the parts to
do my project this weekend :-)


-marc

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