I have been ordering from DigiKey and they've always shipped from the United States (apparently when ordering from the Canadian site it's perfectly normal that they would ship from the United States, at least that seems like their attitude). My understanding about why they are doing this, is they don't have to deal with taxes and duty this way.
Previous orders, this has been "not a big deal, a bit of a pain, but not really a big deal". This time (split order) it's been a really very significant difference. The first part of the order was something like 36% border fees.
I've tried to find a Canadian place, and probably have found a couple of reasonable alternatives, but I'd really like to ask if anyone has some good electronics shipping from Canada.
I get to some degree, it just doesn't really make sense to try to do that, as most of the manufactures are based in the United States. Even Canadian electronics companies, that are "manufacturers" are to some degree dealing with having to get stuff from the United States.
Anyway, if you have a place to look at I'd love to hear. Thanks. #AskingFediverse #AskingFedi
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Elena ``of Valhalla''
in reply to Jigme Datse • •@Jigme Datse aren't the typical items bought from DigiKey manifactured in China anyway?
Sadly I've just checked the bag of my usual distributor of electronic components, and it does list a subsidiary in North America, but it's in the USA too :(
boosting in the hope that somebody else has alternatives
cate
in reply to Elena ``of Valhalla'' • • •Elena ``of Valhalla''
in reply to cate • •@cate in the EU I'm quite happy with tme.eu , btw
outside of the EU they seem to have subsidiaries only in UK, USA and China, however. unless they have new ones, and they haven't added them yet to the bags they use to ship small components (of which there is currentlyΒ a convenient pile on my desktop) :D
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Jigme Datse
in reply to Elena ``of Valhalla'' • • •Yes, many (well over 50% I think) are manufactured in China. I'd honestly be OK getting them directly from China, not a great situation, but it's not as bad in terms of ordering stuff as it is from the US.
Are you in Italy? Or is that just the instance?
Elena ``of Valhalla''
in reply to Jigme Datse • •@Jigme Datse yeah, I don't like getting things directly from China either, among other things because having a local distributor helps a lot with the quality control.
And I am indeed in Italy.
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Kermode π¨π¦ π΄σ §σ ’σ ·σ ¬σ ³σ Ώ
in reply to Jigme Datse • • •Never use them for out of canada goods at all.
They claim 'customs clearance fees' that don't actually exist.
FedEx never does this. The postal service never does this.
There are no duties on computers or electronic components.
Source: ran a freight shed for years with both. Also, even further back, I simply got a customs license from the feds for next to nothing to avoid the bastards and 'cleared' my own stuff for nothing.
Jigme Datse
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This was DHL. I don't tend to do FedEx as it's been too much of a pain. I prefer to do Canada Post (on this end) but getting to the post office (where it would show up) has been enough of an issue to make that a bit of a pain.
I have tended to be happy with DHL in the past, but this is not really cool. Also... I'd be somewhat willing to deal with it myself, but I have no idea as to how to ensure that if I handle it myself, that there won't be a claim that it's not done.
Thanks for the info.
Kermode π¨π¦ π΄σ §σ ’σ ·σ ¬σ ³σ Ώ
in reply to Jigme Datse • • •Interestingly, canada post owns most of purolator.
Very tight knit game - like our grocery stores or our telcom or...
There's only one ending to the game of Monopoly.
Jigme Datse
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The board thrown across the room? Is that the only one ending to the game of Monopoly (Honestly I've never really had that experience, though I've heard that it's common, but also that a big part of why it's common, is because people "play it wrong.") I'm not sure if it also was that when we played, if people got tired, we'd just quit.
Yeah, the everything owned by so few things. Not cool.
The original game was anti-capitalist actually. So that's interesting, though I've not really considered playing it from that perspective.
Other games are meant to be that as well. Universal Paperclips is meant to be anti-capitalist. Though I think it's easy to loose that.
Kermode π¨π¦ π΄σ §σ ’σ ·σ ¬σ ³σ Ώ
in reply to Jigme Datse • • •but yeah, it only ends one way: winner take all (I wasn't familiar with the throwing the board ending). Or everyone just gives up out of boredom.
How many telcos do we have? CPU makers? Hard drive companies? and on and on. Grocery stores? Banks? Everything dwindles and the big ones expand.