B & E Electronics

I visit B&E very regularly for both work and personal projects. I have been working heavily with electronics for the last 10 years or so.
Without a doubt, B&E has the best stock of standard electronic parts and accessories in the general area. I have found them to keep good stock of the most commonly used parts.
Tips for shopping at B&E:
1) Do your homework on B&E’s website before coming and make sure that you know what you want.
2) Don’t ask any of the sales reps for help ever — except Mike Dodd. The older gentleman that works here is horrendous. For the most part the reps are rude, condescending and make you feel like an idiot. This is the treatment I receive as a regular.
3) Look elsewhere for cabling. Cabling is not B&E’s bread and butter and thus you see higher cabling pricing and longer lead times to get stuff that is not in stock.

The geeks really do rule you know. Take a look at the richest men of the world, with the exception of a few oil magnates and mad dictators, virtually all of them are inventors or owners of tech companies. But how do you get started on your road to riches and mad science-​dom? Why B&E is the place!
B&E is a mad-scientist’s mad wet dream of a shop. Filled with electronics parts of all sorts, circuits, test equipment, wiring, tools and all that, a would-​be Dr. Horrible could make his latest Death Ray (or a fine cappuchino machine complete with time machine).
It’s admittedly not all that much to look at, basically lots and lots of rows of electronic parts of every sort, but it does offer some pretty good prices for batteries, little attachments for your tv and so on. The staff know their stuff (which is impressive considering the thousands and thousands of products they offer). I personally like to stop by here for cable connectors and so on when I feel adventurish in terms of tinkering with my home theatre setup.
So when you think of electronics components, shop SMART, shop S-​Ma… er… wrong cultural reference. Just head on over here. Way better selection than The Source and much much cheaper.
#19 of Unilocal’s 30-​Day Review Challenge