Interesting! I'll have to check them out. I'd seen their ads and knew that
they were local (I live in Santa Maria, CA, and they are in Santa Maria,
CA, maybe a couple miles from me). From the ads, I'd mostly thought of
them as selling prototype kits. I'll have to look at them a bit more
closely.

Harold


> Whenever possible, I buy all my passives from Garrett Electronics:
> http://www.garrettelec.com/
> because:
>
> 1. They are very accommodating regarding small orders.  They'll put
> anything possible on tape/reel for a small price and they'll do that for
> free for any line item of 500 or more as opposed to Digikey who won't do
> it for some items and want $7 when they will do it.
>
> 2. Their online stock system is as good as Digikey.
>
> 3. Their online ordering system is probably as good as Digikey but I
> don't use it.  Instead, I email a spreadsheet to an inside sales person.
>   She goes over it and calls if there are any questions, subs, or if
> they see that I can change the quantity of some part and get more for
> less.
>
> Downside:
> They don't always have all the parts I need. But I have yet to get a
> wrong order from them.
>
> David Challis wrote:
>> The mis-marked parts problem happened to us again this weekend!  We
>> received
>> some sot23-6 parts that were for HDMI esd, rather than the USB esd as
>> marked
>> on the bag, and we had a run of cameras built with some 1000pf caps
>> rather
>> than 10,000pf caps, again from a mismarked lot. That one was very
>> expensive
>> for us to fix.  We are now seriously considering only buying full reels
>> and/or buying from other distributors.
>>
>> I really hope our friends at Digikey get this under control.
>>
>> Does anyone have medium volume (100 to 5000 per line item) experience
>> with
>> Mouser, Newark, Avnet, or Arrow that they can report on?
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> Dave
>
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