I have bought parts from Digikey in the US (into Australia) ...  and in my 
case the parts cost approx $2.50 each (for 5 x DIL 8 pin ic's)  ...  but the 
freight cost $80 !!!

They were not negotiable on freight or freight options  ...  if I wanted the 
bits, I had to pay the freight.

At the time my only other alternative was to buy a replacement pcb for the 
device I was repairing  ...  and that was around $500.

There might be something in their location name after all.

Regards,  Roger


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Apptech" <apptechnz@gmail.com>
To: "Microcontroller discussion list - Public." <piclist@mit.edu>
Sent: Monday, November 09, 2009 7:08 PM
Subject: Re: [PIC]Digikey New Zealand


>> I see Digikey have a NZ office but no Australian one. Does any Nz'er
>> or Aus person know if they will export to Australia (from the NZ
>> office)?
>
>
> I was/am of the impression that the "NZ" office is a virtual one and that
> orders are fulfilled directly from Thief River.(Great name for a place to
> run a business one.) This is also true of their Chinese website, which
> starts off with Chinse URLs but AFAIR reverts to US obes as one proceeds
> through the system.
>
> Digikey offer free freight to NZ for orders over $100. AFAIR that's $NZ100
> and not $US100 - although the two are reasonably similar at present - in 
> the
> not too distant past they were almost 2:1.
>
> Combining orders with other antipodeans may be doable.
>
> An alternative is to acquire a US contact who will forward for you using a
> lower cost service than Digikey offer. I'm not sure if Digikey offer 
> Global
> Priority Express - AFAIR it costs $US9 to send an A4 x 100 page or so 
> stout
> enevlope by that service with delivery times of about 1 week - faster than
> DHL manages sometimes with their brain dead arrangement with local 
> couriers
> here or when sending my cameras to Singapore. (DHL appear to me to be
> looking for creative ways to destroy their business, although the reason
> theymight wish to do so is not apparent).
>
> If you determine that Digikey have a real NZ office please advise - it 
> would
> be useful.
>
>         Russell

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