Canadian Mail-Order???

[seangoesbonk]

does anyone know of any electronics mail-order companies in Canada? I live in BC and I would like to avoid being reamed(financially) by the customs guys. I know of Plitron(transformers) in Toronto. Anybody know any other companies? Large capacitors, heatsinks, speakers, or ANYthing else... thanks.

 

[ThingyNess]

While Digikey isn't in Canada per se, they have a catalog in canadian dollars which includes all customs/brokerage fees prepaid by Digikey. They charge a flat rate $8cdn for next-day shipping to Canada via purolator. I order most of my stuff through them (I'm in Vancouver, BC as well)

http://canada.digikey.com

You can request a free printed catalog from their site.

 

[Tony D.]

I'm in Vancouver as well and a while back there was some noise being made at the Asylum regarding putting an Audio/Phile/Geek type group together here.

Any interest at your respective ends?


Tony D.

 

[ThingyNess]

I wouldn't mind getting into something like that, but I'm a little too busy at the moment - not to mention if it's going to be mostly people from the asylum, I'd probably take a rain check - I'm not into the whole subjectivist thing at all.

Oh, I almost forgot...

www.nuera-acoustic.ca - there are some REAL good deals to be had here on speakers that can't be found anywhere else - and they're in Burnaby, BC, Canada.

 

[planet10]

does anyone know of any electronics mail-order companies in Canada? I live in BC and I would like to avoid being reamed(financially) by the customs guys. I know of Plitron(transformers) in Toronto. Anybody know any other companies? Large capacitors, heatsinks, speakers, or ANYthing else... thanks.

I'm in Victoria, and i do a lot of mail-order on Vintage stuff i recycle.

You might well check out McBride (Q-Components) in Waterloo.

http://www.mcbrideloudspeaker.com/

dave

 

[paulb]

Here's a few more:

http://www.e-sonic.com/electrosonic/home.asp

http://search.newark.com/canada/welcome.phtml

http://www.solen.ca/

The Parts Connection was a popular place but went out of business; apparently former employees hvae resurrected it as:
http://www.partsconnexion.com

Many US companies ship to Canada without blinking an eye. Digikey mentioned earlier in this thread is the best, but also check out places like:

www.partsexpress.com
www.mouser.com