I miss radio shack… and frys, I don’t need 100 5k ohm resistors, I need 3. Thank god Microcenter and EPO are still around. Shoutout to Mouser and McMaster Carr too but their shipping adds up for oddball stuff.
It’s definitely going to depend on where you live, the shipping estimate gives me for one is eight dollars. To a certain extent I feel like Amazon has given us an unrealistic expectation of how much shipping things costs. Eight dollars even for a tiny resistor though isn’t that far out of what I expected it to be, a lot of other places I shop online have pretty similar shipping costs. I’m willing to pay it in many cases though because it means not supporting a company like Amazon.
Jameco is another good online vendor. They sell resistors by the tens.
I’ve never tried ordering just one small thing from them though, I make a list for a few different projects and then order it all at once to save on shipping, and I’ve got a bin for extra components to reduce the need for oddball orders.
Radio shack was awesome, it’s a huge shame it’s not around anymore.
I miss microcenter. I’m sad and shocked it doesn’t exist in the pnw and there’s nothing close to it around here. I have to buy my tech when visiting family in ohio
The nice thing about living in a “not wealthy enough to become a corporate hellscape” country is that I can go down some random roads and get to the streets where independent vendors live, and buy any extremely spesific and small electronic component I want with individual pieces or handfulls for quite cheap.
I was honesrly a bit culture shocked visiting sri lanka and seeing the vendor to vendor next to each other lining themselves for 1-2 km. Couldnt imagine each of then surviving on the amount of money they are making.
Oh they are very car dependant lol.
Your village wont suffice for a day job and your daily meal.
But there werent the big corporate shops there outside of the metropolitan areas.
I miss radio shack… and frys, I don’t need 100 5k ohm resistors, I need 3. Thank god Microcenter and EPO are still around. Shoutout to Mouser and McMaster Carr too but their shipping adds up for oddball stuff.
DigiKey lets you buy one at a time.
Yeah, they are just farther away from me vs Mouser and have the same problem with shipping. A 10 cent resistor costs $15 to ship.
It’s definitely going to depend on where you live, the shipping estimate gives me for one is eight dollars. To a certain extent I feel like Amazon has given us an unrealistic expectation of how much shipping things costs. Eight dollars even for a tiny resistor though isn’t that far out of what I expected it to be, a lot of other places I shop online have pretty similar shipping costs. I’m willing to pay it in many cases though because it means not supporting a company like Amazon.
Shipping costs business around $8 at the lowest end now. Retail shipping expect prices up at $12 for an ounce.
Thank the pedotus. They raised rates 4 times this year so far and another is coming next month.
That resistor better be made of solid gold lol
Jameco is another good online vendor. They sell resistors by the tens.
I’ve never tried ordering just one small thing from them though, I make a list for a few different projects and then order it all at once to save on shipping, and I’ve got a bin for extra components to reduce the need for oddball orders.
Radio shack was awesome, it’s a huge shame it’s not around anymore.
EPO in houston? i miss that place. and micro center. closest one to me is in san jose. wish they’d open one in seattle
Yep! They used to have a location down by NASA too but that closed in the early 00s.
I miss microcenter. I’m sad and shocked it doesn’t exist in the pnw and there’s nothing close to it around here. I have to buy my tech when visiting family in ohio
The nice thing about living in a “not wealthy enough to become a corporate hellscape” country is that I can go down some random roads and get to the streets where independent vendors live, and buy any extremely spesific and small electronic component I want with individual pieces or handfulls for quite cheap.
I was honesrly a bit culture shocked visiting sri lanka and seeing the vendor to vendor next to each other lining themselves for 1-2 km. Couldnt imagine each of then surviving on the amount of money they are making.
Just the wonders of non-corporateism and not being car dependent.
Oh they are very car dependant lol.
Your village wont suffice for a day job and your daily meal.
But there werent the big corporate shops there outside of the metropolitan areas.