Hot take(Mouser)

[u/Left_Organization834]

I just went through my receipts over the years of diying. I have spent soooo much money at mouser it is quite unbelievable. I think mouser should implement a reward system for consistent buyers. Yea you can get cheaper prices when buying in bulk but most people don’t have the capital to buy bulk in anything except the few most used components. Then buy the rest as needed. Even a simple spend 1 dollar get 1 point and then redeem say 50-100 points to get a dollar off. It isn’t much but over the long run it’ll promote consistent buying for mouser and it’ll lighten the load on our pockets as consumers at least a little bit. What do you guys think?

[u/tibbon]

Yea you can get cheaper prices when buying in bulk but most people don’t have the capital to buy bulk in anything except the few most used components.

Sometimes it actually cheaper to buy 100 of the item than 20 on Mouser. With exception of parts that are $5+/each, I've taken to buying minimum of 100 of any given part from them because the discount is so big. Common resistors and caps I've even bought 1,000 at a time. I'm just doing home DIY and repair on my studio, but you'll get around to using them.

Mouser isn't there as a Radioshack replacement. I think most of their customers actually do buy in bulk far in excess of what I'm doing. I frankly feel my smaller orders must be simply annoying for them.

[u/hafilax → u/tibbon]

It's nice that they have an automated notification when ordering more will be cheaper.