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[–] 87 points 3 months ago (13 children)

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.

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  • [–] 21 points 3 months ago (3 children)

    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.

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  • [–] 3 points 3 months ago (2 children)

    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.

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  • [–] 2 points 3 months ago

    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.

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  • [–] 5 points 3 months ago

    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.

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  • [–] 2 points 3 months ago (3 children)

    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.

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  • [–] 1 point 3 months ago (2 children)

    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.

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