[HN Gopher] The Smartest Website You Haven't Heard Of ___________________________________________________________________ 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. ___________________________________________________________________ (page generated 2022-09-25 23:00 UTC)