Although DigiKey's prices in the U.S. are not bad, they are rarely the cheapest on the block. DigiKey is all about service. That being the case, I suspect they can't imagine someone waiting postal service sorts of times to get their parts. Even here in the U.S. one needs to be a little careful. DigiKey's default shipping method is quite pricey, and for my location, only saves a day over the cheapest way, and sometimes not even that. When they say it ships the same day, they mean it. Once I called them at around 6 P.M. to order a few things, including a part that needed to be custom programmed. It turns out that the person who did that programming had already left for the day. They called me back all in a panic when they found this out. I had a hard time assuring them that an extra day was no big deal to me. This over a $3 part. And I'm not an especially big customer - I probably spend around $100 a year there. 72/73 de WB8RCR http://www.qsl.net/wb8rcr didileydadidah QRP-L #1446 Code Warriors #35 ----- Original Message ----- From: "Mike Harrison" To: Sent: Friday, April 16, 2004 8:49 AM Subject: Re: [EE:] Digi-key On Fri, 16 Apr 2004 09:43:32 +0100, you wrote: >Hi Guys >After hearing so many good things about Digi-Key in this list from our >colleagues in the USA, I was very surprised about the day time robbery >prices that Digi-key is charging here in the UK. The two things I wanted >from them were double the price of the same part in the USA, mainly because >of there "handling charge and shipping charge". >How do they want to compete with RS and Farnell if their prices are the same >or higher? >regards > Luis Yes, they have totally messed up with their attempt to sell to the UK. USPS Global Priority falt-rate mailers can get a lot of stuff here for $5 or $9, but using courier services just makes the pricing ridiculous. -- http://www.piclist.com hint: PICList Posts must start with ONE topic: [PIC]:,[SX]:,[AVR]: ->uP ONLY! [EE]:,[OT]: ->Other [BUY]:,[AD]: ->Ads -- http://www.piclist.com hint: PICList Posts must start with ONE topic: [PIC]:,[SX]:,[AVR]: ->uP ONLY! [EE]:,[OT]: ->Other [BUY]:,[AD]: ->Ads