Looks like you have an 'opertunity' here. Develop a 'shopping' site that
can access the
available inventory of each of the vendors, and give a 'least overall cost'
shopping list
with spreadsheets or forms that could be faxed or emailed to each vendor.
Pay for it with a 'fee' ($1/set of orders, or .5% of amount ordered) or
better, by ads on the web site.
Keep adding more 'obscure' vendors. I'd start with digikey, jameco, then
down the shopping list
of others. ... Also, allow users to block vendors they have a prejudice
against for any reason (bad
shopping experience, customer service, etc ... or for no reason at all).
I only want 2% of your revenues for the idea ;) ... Enjoy
IHS ... Jack
On Mon, Mar 30, 2009 at 6:25 PM, awakephd <a_wake@...> wrote:
> <snip>
> Sigh. Looks like Digikey is the only choice for one-stop shopping. Now I
> need to do the math and see whether their higher prices are outweighed by
> not having to pay multiple S&H. Either that or I need to give up on the R8C,
> even though my reading of their manuals since getting DJ's endorsement has
> made me really want to try one out ...
>
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