For instance, when I order PCBs from JLCPCB in China, the order and shipping value is send to the carrier (DHL).Īs soon as the order is turned over to DHL, they (DHL) immediately send the customs files to the Belgium customs and pay the tariff, and the package gets to me with no hassle and no extra costs in a few days. Where I live, Digikey and Mouser take care of all that so the surcharge on the items price is very low, a few % at most.īut many countries don't yet have the automated system* and that costs you. It also saves you money because if the importation is done separately there's often an admin charge just for doing it for you.įor instance, here in Belgium the national post office charges € 15 admin fee on top of any import duties. That saves you a lot of time, it's not unusual for shipments to linger at the customs' office for several weeks. Nowadays, importers often charge the import duties and transfers them to the government on your behalf. It's your government that sets the import tariffs, not Digikey. So to answer my own question: digikey is not bad and I didn't have good luck lately.It depends on how they are imported into your country. I suspect it was individual's agendas to do such thing to one person, twice in a row.
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They have professional teams to handle parts. General comments, I have not got wrong parts or orders from either digikey or mouser.
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This capacitor is rather expensive so I didn't have a justification for a full rail. I buy rails of parts sometimes for things like 100nF caps or 10K resistors. They could have spread out the odds and ends among all customers but someone decides that it's in their right to dump odds and ends at one particular customer, twice in a row! Then a week later an order of 1000 parts in 7 bags? The repeated behavior, that's what made me angry. But, for someone ordering 100 parts, sending 8 bags of parts seems intentional. It turns out that if you don't give a specific note for cut tapes, you MAY get multiple bags of identical parts making the total you order. Thanks everyone! Been teaching all morning.
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Usually the items may be OK but there are no specs, datasheet, or schematic, or manufacturer's part number so nobody knows how to hook it up or use it. I see a lot of issues here on the forum with "cheap parts" (or cheap board assemblies). I NEVER buy from unknown 3rd-party Amazon suppliers, or eBay, or AliExpress, etc. I've ordered a couple of times from SparkFun and Adafriut and they've also been reliable. They are basically a hobbyist supplier and they don't have the "infinite selection" of Digikey or Mouser. I've also ordered from Jameco for many years and they've been reliable. I already have everything I need except one part! And unfortunately, I couldn't think of anything else to order to "justify" the shipping. I only needed one, but I almost never order one of anything (in case I fry it, or for troubleshooting in case I think I might have fried it, or maybe I'll need one in the future). Yesterday, I ordered 5 Schottky diodes from Mouser at about $1 each. Lately I've been ordering from Mouser because they don't have a minimum order (and I believe Digikey still does). The companies I've worked for do sometimes order 1000 and I don't remember any complaints but I don't work in purchasing or QA. I've also never ordered 1000 of anything but my orders have always been "correct". I assume the parts were all correct and identical?
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You probably wanted 1276-2909-6-ND which would have been a reel of 1,000īTW, a similar thing happens with crimp terminals: if you're not careful you'll end up ordering 5,000 in strips designed for automatic crimping tools instead of bulk packaging which is easier to deal with using manual tools. You ordered 1276-2909-1-ND which specifies Cut-Tape (small pre-cut quantities in bags).
If I were ordering 1000 capacitors, I'd probably go for Tape & Reel as it would likely come as one long tape. They sell components like this as Cut Tape (for smaller volumes) or Tape and Reel (larger volumes) and as dlloyd says, they have different part numbers, so you have to be careful.
Seriously, their employees take snowmobiles to work during snowstorms, which can be pretty intense up in Thief River Falls (yeah, I'm a fellow Minnesotan )īeen ordering from them either for personal use or for companies I've worked for and over a 30 year timespan and hundreds of orders I remember exactly three mistakes!
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