> Tal,

> You do not want to know what it means
> Digikey said ND means  "No Discount"

> Andre

> -----Original Message-----

> Have you wondered ND in DigiKey part numbers stand for ?
> Can you guess ?
> No cheating please ;-)
> I do have the official answer from DigiKey.
> Tal

Digi-Key's original pricing scheme divided all of their products into
two categories: those marked ND and those without that mark. When
you figured the final price of your order, you added all of the ND prices
and called that P1. You then added all of the non-ND prices and called
that P2. The final price was (P1 + discount * P2), where discount depended
on P2. If P2 < $100, discount = 0, if between $100 and $250, discount = 10%,
if between $250 and $500, discount = 15%, etc. As time went by, the ND
suffix appeared on more and more parts, until the discount vanished. You can tell
this by looking at the order form in the catalog. The formula for computing the
discount is no longer there. I remember when the formula was still there, but I
could find only *one* item with -ND in the whole catalog.

John Power

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