Online Components Shops — India

I surveyed a lot of online shops today in my country. I was looking for shops that sells Electronic Components at cheap rates. I got the following list of sites. This is surely not exhaustive but are the ones that I thought were good:

S.No	Website	Pricing	Availability	Remark
1	http://www.electroncomponents.com/	High	Low
2	http://www.evelta.com/	Very Low	Med	Good Site
3	http://hobby2go.com/	Very High
4	http://in.element14.com/	High	Very High	Bad website for small Purchase.
5	http://www.onlinetps.com/	Very Low	High	Good Site
6	http://www.digikey.in/	Low	Very High	Wholesale
7	www.vishaworld.com/	Med	Med	Slow Website
8	http://tronixkart.co/	High	Low
9	http://www.anandtronics.com/	Med	Very Low
10	http://in.mouser.com/	High	High	Branded only
11	http://www.componentsindia.com/		Very Low	Poor site
12	www.dnatechindia.com/	High	Very Low
13	http://nex-robotics.com/	Med	High	Good Site
14	http://www.frugal-labs.com/	Low		Not a component site
15	http://hacktronics.co.in/	Low	Med	Modules only
16	http://sonlineshop.com/	Very Low	High	Good Site
17	http://www.technofreek.com/	Med	Very Low
18	http://www.roboshop.in/	Med	Med	Kits only
19	www.digxtech.com	Low	Med
20	http://www.mgsuperlabs.co.in	Med	Med	Kits only
21	http://www.probots.co.in/	Very Low	Med	Good Site
22	www.kitsnspares.com	Med	Very Low
23	http://www.nskelectronics.in/	Very High	Low
24	http://www.rhydolabz.com/	High	Low
25	http://ventor.co.in/	Very Low	Very High	Good Site

The availability that I am talking about was checked for the component that I needed. I finally arrived at the 6 of the best sites from the above.

1. http://ventor.co.in/
2. http://www.evelta.com/
3. http://www.onlinetps.com/
4. http://nex-robotics.com/
5. http://sonlineshop.com/
6. http://www.probots.co.in/

The above seem to be the cheapest of the 25. Each of the top 6 has its own merits and demerits.

http://ventor.co.in/: This site has got a very high availability but it is costlier than the rest. It charges a Minimum Handling Charge of Rs.150.

http://www.evelta.com/: This site is moderate in all respects. I did not pay much attention to this site but the rates are almost like ventor and sometimes lesser.

http://www.onlinetps.com/: This is the site that I like the best. It is costlier than evelta slightly and atleast twice as costly as sonlineshop. But it charges only Rs. 50 for shipping and the Minimum order limit is less. It has the highest availability after ventor. It is a very good source for connectors. But it charged me Rs.70 extra as surcharge for online payment which was disappointing. I don’t know if others will do it too but I continued with the payment because the USB cable and HDMI cable was cheap and worth paying the extra 70.

http://nex-robotics.com/:  It too has a good availability and the prices are similar or slightly lesser than onlinetps. I don’t have any idea about its shipping charges.

http://sonlineshop.com/:  Extremely cheap. In fact the cheapest of all but its main problems is with buying resistors. Some of the resistors have a minimum order quantity of 100 which is not know until you checkout!!!  I feel it might be  a software bug as the minimum quantity sometimes specified in the site don’t match with what the checkout expects. But the prices are amazingly low. It wouldn’t hurt buying it all if you can find all you need in the same shop itself. Shipping charges is Rs.100 min which is more than onlinetps.

http://www.probots.co.in/: Not exceptional when it comes to availability but the things which are available are as cheap as sonlineshop mostly and the minimum purchase quantity is just 1 for most items.