[sdiy] Digi-Key

[Roman Sowa]

I rarely buy from D-K, maybe 2 times a year, but it's free shipping 
every time, and no extra brokerage fee or whatever. And I can choose if 
I'm charged in EUR or PLN, which is nice sometimes.

But D-K has this silly export laws paperwork, which I guess is 
obligatory to all US vendors, but only D-K takes it seriously.
So at checkout I get asked 3 questions about using ordered components in 
a missile to destroy America and their meaning basicaly is: "are you an 
idiot?", "are you sure you are not an idiot?", and "we think you're an 
idiot, but better to ask you again, so are you...?".

Roman

PS, since I wrote "a missile to destroy America" in one email twice, 
this will surely be analyzed by a few US agencies, so to those people 
reading it: peek-a-boo! :)

W dniu 2018-08-16 o 00:51, Erik Dower pisze:
> I can’t recall the reasoning, but I get hit with a 20€ brokerage fee when I receive a package from Digikey in Germany, in addition to any shipping fees. For this reason, I always buy from Mouser unless they don’t have the part I need.
> 
> epk
> 
>> On Aug 15, 2018, at 8:41 PM, MTG <grant at musictechnologiesgroup.com> wrote:
>>
>> 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)
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