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justDIY · 21st June 2006, 05:34 AM

the local sales office of Future has approached me a couple times to setup an account with them... now I'm hardly a large volume purchaser of electronic components, so I'm not sure what their interest is.

Can anyone share their experiences with Future?
Do they have a printed catalog... how do you order stuff from them? Their website is harder to use than Mouser's.
How do their small-quanity prices compare to the 'little guys' like digi-key and mouser?

I wouldn't mind having another source to buy components from ... Future's line card isn't as long as digi-key or mouser, but they do carry a lot of suppliers that none of the little guys have.

Papabravo · 21st June 2006, 05:41 AM

Future has been a reliable supplier of components that are unavailable from other distributors. The outside sales people have been very helpful on a number of occasions. Their interest is to sell components, to small enterprises that have the potential to become large enterprises.

We have been 5-7 employees since 1994. We're not huge, we're not growing, and we're not getting rich, but we build a few, and sell a few, and we're still around. We also never had to sell our souls to the vulture capitalists. The original incorporators still own the company.

dknguyen · 21st June 2006, 06:51 AM

Future is different from Future-Active right?

justDIY · 21st June 2006, 03:04 PM

I think Future-Active aka FAI is part of Future Electronics ... not to be confused with Futurelec

Styx · 21st June 2006, 09:13 PM

Future are really good! never had a problem with them (they also can get access to hard-to-get components)

Obviously they prefer biig manufactures but they don't mind the little-guy either

if they have offered then use them

BeeBop · 22nd June 2006, 12:27 AM

I'm still not clear on the relationship of Future Electronics, and Future Active...

As far as Future Active goes, I recently had a look at their website, and found it quite lacking as far as modern PICs or AVRs goes. I sent an email to the address on the site, and a few days later, received an email from the president and owner of the company. He assured me that

Quote:

In terms of your complaint, I wanted to let you know that we just added
6 of the most popular Microchip parts to our inventories. It is hard for us
to stock every part as every customer has different needs. However, the
good news is that we can get delivered to the store within 24-48 any part
that a customer needs, and not just Microchip.

This is quite reassuring for me.

futurlec, is an Australia - Thailand based outfit, with fairly good prices on small volume, but without the huge range some of the big players have.

Regards,
Robert

justDIY · 22nd June 2006, 02:09 AM

Here's what I've found on the FAI - FE relationship:
http://biz.yahoo.com/ic/51/51320.html
http://www.jobsite.co.uk/corpages/fu...ec2/index.html

This article perhaps explains Future's poor web catalog interface, and their dislike of the Firefox browser:
http://www.microsoft.com/canada/case...ectronics.mspx

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21st June 2006, 05:34 AM	#1
justDIY	Future Electronics? the local sales office of Future has approached me a couple times to setup an account with them... now I'm hardly a large volume purchaser of electronic components, so I'm not sure what their interest is. Can anyone share their experiences with Future? Do they have a printed catalog... how do you order stuff from them? Their website is harder to use than Mouser's. How do their small-quanity prices compare to the 'little guys' like digi-key and mouser? I wouldn't mind having another source to buy components from ... Future's line card isn't as long as digi-key or mouser, but they do carry a lot of suppliers that none of the little guys have. __________________ If you don't have a planet, what good are gold bars? want to contact me directly? gmail gordonthree check out my project website: http://projects.dimension-x.net Favorite numbers: 09 F9 11 02 9D 74 E3 5B D8 41 56 C5 63 56 88 C0

21st June 2006, 05:41 AM	#2
Papabravo	Future has been a reliable supplier of components that are unavailable from other distributors. The outside sales people have been very helpful on a number of occasions. Their interest is to sell components, to small enterprises that have the potential to become large enterprises. We have been 5-7 employees since 1994. We're not huge, we're not growing, and we're not getting rich, but we build a few, and sell a few, and we're still around. We also never had to sell our souls to the vulture capitalists. The original incorporators still own the company.

21st June 2006, 06:51 AM	#3
dknguyen	Future is different from Future-Active right?

21st June 2006, 03:04 PM	#4
justDIY	I think Future-Active aka FAI is part of Future Electronics ... not to be confused with Futurelec __________________ If you don't have a planet, what good are gold bars? want to contact me directly? gmail gordonthree check out my project website: http://projects.dimension-x.net Favorite numbers: 09 F9 11 02 9D 74 E3 5B D8 41 56 C5 63 56 88 C0

21st June 2006, 09:13 PM	#5
Styx	Future are really good! never had a problem with them (they also can get access to hard-to-get components) Obviously they prefer biig manufactures but they don't mind the little-guy either if they have offered then use them __________________ Nothing is impossible. Once a problem is realised, the rest is just details

22nd June 2006, 02:09 AM	#7
justDIY	Here's what I've found on the FAI - FE relationship: http://biz.yahoo.com/ic/51/51320.html http://www.jobsite.co.uk/corpages/fu...ec2/index.html This article perhaps explains Future's poor web catalog interface, and their dislike of the Firefox browser: http://www.microsoft.com/canada/case...ectronics.mspx __________________ If you don't have a planet, what good are gold bars? want to contact me directly? gmail gordonthree check out my project website: http://projects.dimension-x.net Favorite numbers: 09 F9 11 02 9D 74 E3 5B D8 41 56 C5 63 56 88 C0