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cheap electronics store online

I'm sick of going to radioshack and paying ridiculous prices.

Anyone know of good online supplier?

Also, would anyone here happen to know of any stores in NYC that carry
a selection like Radio Shack?

Thanks again,
-sam
 
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John Doe

I'm sick of going to radioshack and paying ridiculous prices.

Anyone know of good online supplier?

Also, would anyone here happen to know of any stores in NYC that
carry a selection like Radio Shack?

Mouser
Digi-Key

As far as I know, Mouser is more like RadioShack and Digi-Key is
more for engineers. I've ordered from both.

Good luck and have fun.
 
In said:
I'm sick of going to radioshack and paying ridiculous prices.

Anyone know of good online supplier?

There are lots of them out there.

I kind of like allelectronics.com

Just be careful not to rely too much on parts being in stock, if it's out
of stock, they'll ship the rest of the order, leaving the "out of stock" part
out of the order. This means that.. if you're working on something that
needs all the parts, you could get stuck paying the shipping fee twice.

It's a fun site to visit, they always have weird stuff there.

I don't like alltronics.com

The only reason I don't like them is that they didn't respond to an
inquiry I had once. Could have been a fluke incident. (I know there
have been times when I lost emails from people asking me stuff regarding
my products, must have looked like I didn't care.)

I don't despise them or anything, just had ONE bad experience, I've heard good
things about them, so I may be out of line by saying I don't like them. (and
a but hippo-critical)

You could also visit Don Lancasters website:

It's full of advertisements, but it's also full of information.

http://www.tinaja.com/

He's got lots of papers and info on getting cheap parts. (and good books too)

I like his site because, although it's full of ads, it's also full of content, making
the ads quite acceptable. (He's got to get paid for all that work he does
some how!)

Jamie
 
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Puckdropper

[email protected] wrote in @p79g2000cwp.googlegroups.com:
I'm sick of going to radioshack and paying ridiculous prices.

Anyone know of good online supplier?

Also, would anyone here happen to know of any stores in NYC that carry
a selection like Radio Shack?

Thanks again,
-sam

Welcome to Usenet. Most readers really appreciate (ok, that's sugar
coating it) the attempt made by a person to find the information to such
a question themselves. You are already familiar with google through
their mail system, so why not try a websearch?

Oh, and have you heard of Google Local? Just type your query and
location, and Google usually pulls up local results. Wonderful, isn't
it?

Puckdropper
 
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Bart Bervoets

Just wanted to note that although google does a great job, relying on it to
buy something could end up
in boosted search results.
I found google to be accurate for private searches but boosted for
commercial ones.
No sweat, just my 2 cents.

Bart Bervoets
 
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Chris

I'm sick of going to radioshack and paying ridiculous prices.

Anyone know of good online supplier?

Also, would anyone here happen to know of any stores in NYC that carry
a selection like Radio Shack?

Thanks again,
-sam

Hi, Sam. Two good hobbyist sources are Mouser and Jameco. They're
both online, and both have paper catalogs. And I understand Mouser
will even send your order Parcel Post if you're willing to wait.

http://www.mouser.com/
http://www.jameco.com/

Be sure to request a catalog with your order.

Good luck
Chris
 
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Michael Black

Bart Bervoets" ([email protected]) said:
Just wanted to note that although google does a great job, relying on it to
buy something could end up
in boosted search results.
I found google to be accurate for private searches but boosted for
commercial ones.
No sweat, just my 2 cents.

Bart Bervoets
Of course, in this case it's not just a matter of finding information, but
getting an evaluation.

I was once asked to find a cheap source of button cells for something for a
friend, and doing a websearch on the battery number turned up about one place.
Obviously it was a place to get them, but there was no clue about whether
the business really existed beyond a website, or if they did have stock
how reliable they were.

It amazes me to see people thinking they can have a business if they
have a website, and then they worry about how they rank in a search engine
return. The fallacy is that they aren't doing all the things a business
needs to do to make it viable, like advertising and getting customers
in early who will hopefully talk about their good experience, and getting
talked about in old media. The sorts of things that tell the potential
customer that it is a real business, and people have bought from it.

I suppose it is easy to find companies that do mail order in electronics.
I've never searched, and my first thought is figuring out suitable
searchwords. But unless someone finds a place where actual customers
are discussing the companies, it won't give an independent verification
of the business.

When I was a kid and first went to buy parts, I did pick a name out of
the Yellow Pages. Of course, there was a real store so I could evaluate
the store first hand, rather than sending money off to some faraway place.
It turned out to be a good choice, the place was a combination old style
parts store and surplus outlet (ETCO here in Canada, for those who
might remember the time when they did mailorder), and I later discovered
there were other stores of the same nature clustered nearby. But, I
could have just as easily picked some other place, and had a bad experience.

Michael
 
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Michael Black

default said:
As someone suggested All electronics is pretty good for hobby
electronic stuff Alltronics is good too but their stock can be
limited.
www.allelectronics.com better
www.alltronics.com OK
In the old days, there were hobby magazines, and that's how we'd find
out about stores such as this.

Obviously, those magazines are gone, with "Nuts & Volts" being the
only general electronic hobby magazine in North America that I can
think of now. It is worth getting a copy, at least for the
ads (though glancing at it, I don't see the same level of ads that
we used to see in the old magazines), to get a feel for what's out
there.


Michael
 
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default

In the old days, there were hobby magazines, and that's how we'd find
out about stores such as this.

The good old days. QST, 73, Radio Electronics, Poptronics. And Canal
Street in NYC for electronics surplus; store after store filled with
bins of cheap surplus military and computer surplus electronics .
Last time I was there there was one old holdout and a brand new
computer store the rest was taken over by Chna Town.
 
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Michael Black

default said:
The good old days. QST, 73, Radio Electronics, Poptronics. And Canal
Street in NYC for electronics surplus; store after store filled with
bins of cheap surplus military and computer surplus electronics .
Last time I was there there was one old holdout and a brand new
computer store the rest was taken over by Chna Town.
But I thought Canal Street disappeared when they started work on
the World Trade Center almost forty years ago. At least, I've seen
articles about the area's demise because of the construction, and
those articles were from the late sixties.

Of course, QST is still publishing (as is CQ), but CQ is the only
ham magazine available at the newsstands, QST having abandoned,
after about a decade, their distribution to non-ham outlets.

Michael
 
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default

But I thought Canal Street disappeared when they started work on
the World Trade Center almost forty years ago. At least, I've seen
articles about the area's demise because of the construction, and
those articles were from the late sixties.

The area changed a lot from when I was a kid, but the sign said canal
street. My OM was with me and pointed to a building where he said
Lafayette Electronics had their start. It looked like the old canal
street - still run down looking, the old stores are there - most
selling cheap knock-offs from China and a few Chinese food stores.
There were a lot of changes too. We walked from the Fulton Fish
market to Canal. I think the Pace College campus was new and a big new
police station. Fulton Market is mostly or many coffee houses now,
but it looked like they still sell fish in a portion of it - tjhey
were filming a movie so we didn't get to explore as much as I would
have liked.

The one electronic place had some very old stuff antique electronics
and bins full of waveguides - looked like they were made from brass
tubing.

This was about 9 years ago. Trade Center was still standing.
 
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John said:
Mouser
Digi-Key

As far as I know, Mouser is more like RadioShack and Digi-Key is
more for engineers. I've ordered from both.
you obviously dont know much....~:>
 
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John Doe

Of course, in this case it's not just a matter of finding
information, but getting an evaluation.
Yup.

I was once asked to find a cheap source of button cells for
something for a friend, and doing a websearch on the battery
number turned up about one place. Obviously it was a place to get
them, but there was no clue about whether the business really
existed beyond a website, or if they did have stock how reliable
they were.

During a search for merchants, you can get lots of pointers to the
same merchant. Word-of-mouth helps eliminate that problem. By asking
for advice you can find better merchants that aren't the best at
spamming their URLs all over search engines.

Have fun.
 
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John

I'm sick of going to radioshack and paying ridiculous prices.

Anyone know of good online supplier?

Also, would anyone here happen to know of any stores in NYC that carry
a selection like Radio Shack?

Thanks again,
-sam

Other surplus dealers - buy it when you see it, it won't be there next
month (and maybe not tomorrow).

Marlin P Jones
www.mpja,com

SkyCraft Surplus
http://www.skycraftsurplus.com/index.asp

I second All Electronics. Just got some 2x24 LCD displays with EL
backlight for $4 each, along with way too much other "stuff" ;-)

John
 
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