I've found Mouser to be really good for small orders. 
No minimum order requirements.  If you take their USPS
First Class Mail option for shipping, it costs no more
than about $6 for shipping and takes a couple of days.
  My last order for resistors, relays, caps and about
10 chips was $3.85 for shipping.  I ordered it on
monday, got it wednesday. 

What's really amazing, for most parts, Mouser is
cheaper than almost every other outfit.  Some times
dramatically cheaper. 

phil

--- "Alan B. Pearce" <A.B.Pearce@rl.ac.uk> wrote:
> >I am now redesigning my circuit to use the Exar
> devices - I get them
> cheaper
> >than the NSC equivalent so the only people who have
> lost out by not sending
> >out samples are NSC themselves this time.
> 
> Well, what they did was cause you to look for second
> sources ;))
> 
> >The issue I had was that I only needed a couple of
> these units - I could
> >have ordered them from my distributors but because
> of minimum orders and
> >postage charges it made them relatively expensive.
> 
> yeah, I appreciated that, and the attitude at a lot
> of development outfits
> would be "so what" and just order them from RS or
> Farnell. For us "little
> guys" the costs do throw things somewhat, which is
> why guys on this list
> talk of having heaps of "jellybean" parts in stock.
> I don't know if you
> considered these particular parts to be in that
> category.
> 
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