got to agree
drive 15 miles to metro toronto or let digikey deliver to your door for
less money
unless its a surplus item from sayal or a popular hobby item/ noname
knockoff carried
by supremetronic(sic?)
forget it- go digikey
  dave

At 08:36 AM 7/18/03 -0400, you wrote:

>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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