Re: X-10 Broadcast Storm Detector

[nobody@xxxxxxxxxxxx (Dave Houston)]

What exasperated me with Jameco is that with some items there was a notice
of extra shipping charges as you added them to the cart but, after
eliminating all of those and placing the order, I found that there were
still three different origins and shipping charges of $30 on a total order
of about $10. I had to email them to cancel the order.

BTW, I bought a handful of these...

http://www.allelectronics.com/cgi-bin/item/CB-216/123/2.1MM_DC_POWER_CABLE,_24_AWG,_6%22#39;_CABLE_.html

which really come in handy for things like testing power supplies.

"Robert Green" <ROBERT_GREEN1963@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

>Thanks for the link, Dave, and the heads-up about the multiple warehouses.
>They are not the only ones who engage in that sort of behavior.  I'd really
>like to know in advance where a vendor will ship from.  Newegg has multiple
>warehouses and if they ship from Edison NJ, I usually get it overnight while
>only paying standard UPS ground rates. If they ship from CA it can be up to
>a week.  Worse still, there's no way (that I can see) to tell where it will
>come from in advance.  I'm going to test the concept with the various AC
>wallwarts I rounded up from the junkbin for starters.