[sdiy] Digi-Key

[MTG]

He may be referring to customs/brokerage and other sundry charges that 
seem loosely tied to the senders paperwork and/or the shipping method used.

On 8/15/2018 11:03 AM, Colin Hinz wrote:
> On Wed, 15 Aug 2018, mskala at ansuz.sooke.bc.ca wrote:
> 
>> On Wed, 15 Aug 2018, mark verbos wrote:
>>> Why does anyone like Digikey? Is it a Canadian thing? I also hate their
>>> search system.I use Mouser for almost everything. They usually have 
>>> the best
>>> price and the search engine is very usable. 
>>
>> I rarely buy from Digi-Key because I don't like their overzealous efforts
>> to enforce their interpretation of US export control laws.  However, I
>> prefer their parametric search over anybody else's.  Mouser, for 
>> instance,
>> has no data dictionary and badly needs one - e.g. some resistors recorded
>> as "1/4 W" while others are "250 mW" (other examples of the problem are
>> harder to deal with, but that's an easy one to describe), so that in
>> general when doing a search you have to read the whole long list of
>> options and flag all that might possibly be relevant.  Newark element14
>> has too many wasted clicks and annoying pop-ups.  No major distributor's
>> parametric search is really pleasant to use but I've had least annoyance
>> with Digi-Key's.
>>
>> -- 
>> Matthew Skala
> 
> US export control laws? I don't recall running into that whenever I
> order from Digi-Key. Can you please elaborate?
> 
> - Colin (in Toronto)