Digi-Key acquired me as their customer when I began shopping online for a vendor that carries the majority of their product lines, but in particular, they had a good price on an item I thought would come and go quickly (a prototype version of a surface-mount microcontroller; the prototype version is DIP-20 package). There wasn't much stock on these to be found online, and Digi-Key seemed willing to take the risk to buy up a good lot of them. What's more, when more of the same item became available from the... read full review »