Greysky wrote:

I have been pondering this idea on and off, but can't tell if it would be
worth the effort to do something like this. Can you make a decent living
selling small quantities of parts - passives, crystals, oscillators, solid
state, IC's , even exotic things like back diodes and mmic's - via mail
order. Or, do the large parts houses like Digi Key have the field sewn up?

We have a few companies like that here in the UK. They have been going
for years so they must be doing reasonably well.

They don't have very extensive stocks, but they are very useful for
small quantities of standard parts as they don't charge much for postage.

73, Leon
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