I have been doing pretty good buying things in small quantities from the guys that post here. Generally, shipping is at cost the prices are competitive and I don't burn any gas going after them. Ordinary mail works fast and PayPal is easy for all. John Ferrell 6241 Phillippi Rd Julian NC 27283 Phone: (336)685-9606 johnferrell@earthlink.net http://DixieNC.US NSRCA 479 AMA 4190 W8CCW "My Competition is Not My Enemy" ----- Original Message ----- From: "Robert Rolf" To: Sent: Tuesday, January 20, 2004 2:30 AM Subject: Re: [OT]: Re: Horowitz... No more local E-store. > Yes, regrettably. > > We used to do maybe $10k/year in small quantities developing prototypes > and doing small (50 pc) production runs for clinical trails. Now that I > nearly always go away empty handed, I don't even bother stopping anymore. > Just put the order in to Digikey in the evening and I have it on my desk by > noon. My orders have to be more consolidated to help cover the shipping > cost, but for prototyping, what else can I do? And I always order extra > parts now, on spec that I'll have a use for them soon enough. > > And now that Arrow has pulled out of Edmonton (and presumably Calgary), > there is no place to go for the industrial parts commonly used around here > (relays, connectors, etc.). > -- http://www.piclist.com hint: To leave the PICList mailto:piclist-unsubscribe-request@mitvma.mit.edu