Hi!
I would like to know you're opinion in online stores to buy eletronics in terms of best quality price ratio.
I currently know dx and I'm also looking into banggood... Banggood seems to have better prices but I don't know about quality...
What do you guys think?
I've gotten all of my transistors/resistors/switches/diodes from Tayda Electronics. Prices are usually even better than ebay and they ship cheaply and quickly. They even give 15% off codes on their FB twice a month. Ongoing currently, in fact.
You should count support when it comes to boards. If you have to guess about the product due to lack of docs, you've got a good chance of ending up with problems or junk.
Shipping cost and time are other big factors unless you don't mind waiting and it's cheap or free.
I have different sources for different things. No store I know has all I want at low price, often not all I want period. My favorite MCU source doesn't carry power supplies, for example.
What may suit me in the USA may not suit someone in the EU or India or in countries with import fees.
There is a thread down in The Bar covering Latest Acquisitions. It gets archived every so often. That is a major source of buying experience information and comments. You should go there.
INTP:
I've gotten all of my transistors/resistors/switches/diodes from Tayda Electronics. Prices are usually even better than ebay and they ship cheaply and quickly. They even give 15% off codes on their FB twice a month. Ongoing currently, in fact.
Tayda does have some nice deals but $3.50 for a blank ATmega328P-PU?
Try Futurlec, same chip is $2.20.
However I have not factored in shipping.
I have bought chips and parts from Yourduino at low enough prices to still be a deal after the shipping.
Only caveat is that the chips I got are unmarked except for indentations in the top, I don't know if they still do that but I've got a bit of work scanning (flat bed scanner) if white-out and scrape doesn't work.
Still, even unmarked, 74HC595's at 5 for 75 cents, IIRC I got $3 worth of just those.
http://yourduino.com/sunshop//
That shop is Terry King's, a member here and it does have a support wiki with loads of how-to.
Yeah you're right, you found one item that wasn't the absolute cheapest. I will totally boycott that site now. May they burn in hell.
INTP:
Yeah you're right, you found one item that wasn't the absolute cheapest. I will totally boycott that site now. May they burn in hell.
I hope that you don't use such fallacious "logic" when you write code... if you write code.
Maybe just maybe the thing to do is shop around for what you get, unless you have a relation to Tayda?
Why else the butt-hurt comeback?
Do you HONESTLY think that's the ONLY Tayda price not lowest?
Give me crap again, I'll post more examples.
They do have some nice deals, but you need to get around more and grow up a bit.
Shipping from Futurlec to US can be really slow. I order 8x8 matrices one time, parts must have come by boat from Australia or something, took forever to get here. I had moved on to several other projects the time they arrived and never went back to finish the one I had planned.
Tayda seems to distribute in US from Colorado, parts arrive much much quicker.
That's where shipping gets critical. I can afford to wait a month.
If I need parts fast I check DIPMicro, Mouser, Digikey, Amazon and a whole list of others.
I've gotten very good deals buying bulk quantity from Mouser and Digikey before.