[HN Gopher] The Smartest Website You Haven't Heard Of
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       The Smartest Website You Haven't Heard Of
        
       Author : runxel
       Score  : 28 points
       Date   : 2022-09-25 22:21 UTC (38 minutes ago)
        
 (HTM) web link (www.bedelstein.com)
 (TXT) w3m dump (www.bedelstein.com)
        
       | jonnycomputer wrote:
       | What a beautiful, functional, perfect e-commerce site. After so
       | much frustration looking for parts and tools at big box store web
       | sites, this is fresh like a sea breeze. Sold, 100%.
        
       | parker_mountain wrote:
       | Great website. Great company. Can't find what you're looking for?
       | Website failing you?
       | 
       | Don't worry, just click the email link at the top of the page and
       | they WILL get back to you - even over a 20 cent part.
        
       | fake-name wrote:
       | McMaster is great.
       | 
       | This article is also completely glossing over another reason to
       | use them: Their shipping is somehow _insanely_ fast.
       | 
       | Almost everything is next-day delivery, even for standard
       | shipping. They've somehow got their logistics COMPLETELY nailed.
       | I believe they have their own agreements with USPS/FedEx/etc...
       | 
       | McMaster is generally not the cheapest, but they're almost always
       | the fastest and the easiest.
       | 
       | Machining/industry runs on McMaster.
        
       | alaskamiller wrote:
       | What a blast in the past, MMC was a client at the agency I was at
       | and we pitched a lot of modernization updates.
        
       | jstrieb wrote:
       | Besides the great website, their many-thousand page phsyical
       | catalog is great. We have a copy at work and it's easy to spend a
       | long time flipping through, learning about all of the different
       | things they have, and why they are useful.
       | 
       | Here is Adam Savage talking about why their catalog is awesome:
       | https://youtu.be/8kbu34dk92s
       | 
       | If you're not familiar with McMaster-Carr, this Hackaday article
       | is a good introduction: https://hackaday.com/2017/09/13/noobs-
       | guide-to-mcmaster-carr...
        
       | Rebelgecko wrote:
       | My one complaint about their website (they don't give you an
       | estimate of shipping costs in advance, so you just have to hope
       | they're reasonable) has supposedly been fixed since the last time
       | I ordered from them
        
       | motoboi wrote:
       | Now be completely honest:
       | 
       | - If you haven't read the article, would you think this site
       | great?
       | 
       | My point is: no one knows what is a great e-commerce website. Is
       | one that sells a lot? Amazon does it.
       | 
       | Is not one that sells a lot, but that is very easy to use?
        
       | moritonal wrote:
       | Posted to the one forum in collective agreement of this fact.
        
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