<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">All of which makes a good argument for collective purchasing.<div><br><div><div>On Nov 17, 2008, at 10:15 AM, Alex Norman wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div>Recently I made an order from digikey, it was toner transfer paper and green<br>trf. This could have fit into a normal sized 9x11.5 or whatever envelope, so I<br>figured I'd be cheap and use the USPS shipping.. but no, they packed it in a box<br>that was probably 12 x 10 x 6, with a bunch of packaging in there, and so the<br>shipping cost me like 10 or 12$. First of all the cost of shipping was<br>outrageous (the weight of what I ordered was quite small), and second it was an<br>intense waste of materials..<br><br>-Alex<br><br>On 0, "Mr.T" <<a href="mailto:drtwist@aracnet.com">drtwist@aracnet.com</a>> wrote:<br><blockquote type="cite">I prefer digikey overall for a number of reasons. First, anytime I.ve been<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">in a customer service situation with them they've been accommodating <br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">almost to the point of obsequiousness. second, 99% of the time digikey'<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">s packaging is 100% recyclable (almost none of mouser/newark's packaging <br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">is). Third, they always make their shipping deadline. plus they usually <br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">have the parts i want.<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">I recently had mouser give me the run around on customer service too.<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">but you're right, mouser's web interface is way better than digikey's <br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">-eric<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">_____________________________<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">Drtwist:<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><a href="mailto:drtwist@aracnet.com">drtwist@aracnet.com</a><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">On Sun, 16 Nov 2008, dave madden wrote:<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">I got dinged for $28 on a $70 order from Mouser the other day. Pissed<br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">me off mightily, I must say. The reason for it was a partial rail of<br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">RJ11 connectors...no reason to ship them in a rail (other connectors I<br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">ordered at the same time were bagged), and if they had even cut the rail<br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">down a bit more carefully, it would have fit in their standard small<br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">box. As it was, they sent me a huge box full of bubble wrap and charged<br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">me 4x the shipping I'd expect on an order that size.<br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">It was just stupid: they don't pocket any fee based on the shipping, so<br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">they wasted my money and annoyed a regular customer without making any<br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">extra for themselves. I wrote to Customer Service (snail mail, on real<br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">paper!). I wonder whether they'll reply.<br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">FWIW, I prefer the Mouser web interface, but I expect I'll be using<br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">DigiKey much more in the future.<br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">d.<br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">_______________________________________________<br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">dorkbotpdx-blabber mailing list<br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><a href="mailto:dorkbotpdx-blabber@dorkbot.org">dorkbotpdx-blabber@dorkbot.org</a><br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><a href="http://music.columbia.edu/mailman/listinfo/dorkbotpdx-blabber">http://music.columbia.edu/mailman/listinfo/dorkbotpdx-blabber</a><br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">_______________________________________________<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">dorkbotpdx-blabber mailing list<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><a href="mailto:dorkbotpdx-blabber@dorkbot.org">dorkbotpdx-blabber@dorkbot.org</a><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><a href="http://music.columbia.edu/mailman/listinfo/dorkbotpdx-blabber">http://music.columbia.edu/mailman/listinfo/dorkbotpdx-blabber</a><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote>_______________________________________________<br>dorkbotpdx-blabber mailing list<br><a href="mailto:dorkbotpdx-blabber@dorkbot.org">dorkbotpdx-blabber@dorkbot.org</a><br><a href="http://music.columbia.edu/mailman/listinfo/dorkbotpdx-blabber">http://music.columbia.edu/mailman/listinfo/dorkbotpdx-blabber</a><br></div></blockquote></div><br></div></body></html>