Hi Jon, I can buy 100 pieces at $8.622 each in Cdn. which is about $6.15US or $862.20 Cdn total ($615.00 US). http://www.digikey.ca/product-detail/en/DSPIC30F5011-20I%2FPT/DSPIC30F5011-2 0I%2FPT-ND/691581
The US site lists 100 pieces at $5.67 US or $567; a difference of $48. http://www.digikey.com/product-detail/en/DSPIC30F5011-20I%2FPT/DSPIC30F5011- 20I%2FPT-ND/691581 So in essence although I'm getting 'free' shipping I'm charged an extra $48 for the part which includes that shipping cost and the Harmonized Tariff document preparation which is used to create a disadvantage for Canadian companies. I can work my buns off but, costs to ship from say Vancouver BC to Vancouver Washington (about 20 miles I think), are higher than to ship from Vancouver Washing to Portland Oregon. And the Vancouver Washington company doesn't have to create 3 copies of the invoice and the appropriate forms including the declaration whether the product will be resold to another 'bad or evil' country. An author named Tom Peters, decades ago, wrote a book called "In Search of Excellence". He proposed that the reason American Industry had been so successful after WW-2 was because Europe was rebuilding itself; not because it was better at it so it was an easy battle to win. He stated once Europe was on its feet American companies would start to become less competitive. Apple Computer was a single shining example of how to do things right. So although it may appear that I have an advantage with free shipping I'm paying more for my product raw materials and I'm paying more to compete with you when I ship into the USA. Were I building an identical product to yours of course. And if I order a USB Gender Changer from China I pay $6 for the item with free shipping. I weighed the package that arrived a few weeks later and found it would cost me more than $6 to ship that same package from Victoria (on Vancouver Island) to Vancouver BC (on the mainland). And that's within Canada. So the deck is stacked against Canadian companies in all sorts of directions. John Dammeyer > -----Original Message----- > From: Jon Elson [mailto:[email protected]] > Sent: January-31-16 9:29 PM > To: Enhanced Machine Controller (EMC) > Subject: Re: [Emc-users] Well, thats the end of aliexpress.com for me > > > On 01/31/2016 11:10 PM, John Dammeyer wrote: > > In Canada we pay in Canadian dollars and the prices of the parts are > > suitably inflated past just the exchange rate. There is no minimum and > > shipping is a flat $8. I'm on Vancouver Island and FedEx delivers the > > Digikey stuff overnight unless there's been some sort of weather delay. > > There is no shipping charge if the order is over $200. > HUH! I always have to pay for shipping, and I recently made > a $2800 order from Digi-Key. > I wonder what I'm doing wrong? > > > > Digikey also has a really good service that puts any quantity onto a reel > > for an extra charge; called a digi-reel. If I'm making 100 pieces a product > > and I need 3 of a particular capacitor I can order 320 devices on a reel > > instead of 3000 pieces. My Pick and Place supplier likes it. No screwing > > around with strips of 50 or 100 where the first 25 have to be discarded for > > the leader. I like it because there's less effort in manufacturing and I'm > > usually left with a few parts for the next prototype. > > > The Digi-reel adds $7 to the cost of the parts. One > advantage of my Philips CSM-84 is the feeders don't require > and trailer and you can thread them (without Digi-reel or > anything special) with just a little fiddling so you only > lose 2 parts. Once threaded, you splice the cover tape with > masking tape to a piece of old cover tape you have kept in > reserve. I'd really have a problem with dumping 25 parts of > each type when threading the machine! > > Some other outfits splice leader to the tapes, and I usually > end up just ripping them off, as they put this brass > perforated splice thing over the sprocket holes, and it is > so much thicker than the tape that it won't feed. > > Jon > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- -- > Site24x7 APM Insight: Get Deep Visibility into Application Performance > APM + Mobile APM + RUM: Monitor 3 App instances at just $35/Month > Monitor end-to-end web transactions and take corrective actions now > Troubleshoot faster and improve end-user experience. Signup Now! > http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=267308311&iu=/4140 > _______________________________________________ > Emc-users mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Site24x7 APM Insight: Get Deep Visibility into Application Performance APM + Mobile APM + RUM: Monitor 3 App instances at just $35/Month Monitor end-to-end web transactions and take corrective actions now Troubleshoot faster and improve end-user experience. Signup Now! http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=267308311&iu=/4140 _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
