Yes Wouter, I forgot about the disclosure thing. I can say that I ordered s=
ome rechargeable Lithium button cells from them last month (first order wit=
h them in ages). I had to say what they were for. Also had a minicircuits o=
rder delayed by a few days while a minicircuits guy from the UK tracked me =
down to get clarification as to what specifically I needed an FM notch filt=
er for. Apparently the company were not happy that I'd just filled in 'rese=
arch purposes' & got this guy to follow up.=20

I've only noticed this being a problem recently, but I don't buy components=
 much from US suppliers so maybe its been going on a while. I must admit to=
 not really seeing how this helps with security in any way. After all if pe=
ople were going to use parts supplied for nefarious purposes, they would no=
t likely declare their true intent. It must be a nightmare for companies to=
 have to follow up & document this, particularly for small orders.
However, like it or not, I guess we must deal with it......

Joe
-----Original Message-----
From: piclist-bounces@mit.edu [mailto:piclist-bounces@mit.edu] On Behalf Of=
 Wouter van Ooijen
Sent: 29 November 2013 09:13
To: Microcontroller discussion list - Public.
Subject: Re: [OT] Ordering from US/EU suppliers

>   I'd also be surprised if Digikey can't deliver to you as well.

My problem with DigiKey is that they don't have an EC presence, hence

- I get a bill for duties & VAT, which is not that much of a problem in its=
elf, but is slows the delivery (and sometimes I have to pay cash at the doo=
r, and sorry, we don't carry change), and they add a handling fee which can=
 be much more than the original fees

- after commiting myself to the order, DigiKey will come to me with questio=
ns about how exactly I will be using certain components. But I have no idea=
 how they will be used, I want to re-sell the components!=20
This would not be much of a problem if I could see up front for which compo=
nents this is required (32-bit processors??), but there seems to be no way.

so for me, DigiKey is out of the question.
Wouter
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