Mcmaster.com is the best e-commerce site I've ever used
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Mcmaster.com is the best e-commerce site I've ever used
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Re: Mcmaster.com is the best e-commerce site I've ever used
#2Posted to the one forum in collective agreement of this fact.
Re: Mcmaster.com is the best e-commerce site I've ever used
#3What 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%.
In fact, I was just browsing Home Depot for some tool hooks, but I think I'll buy them from this place instead.
Re: Mcmaster.com is the best e-commerce site I've ever used
#4Great 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.
Re: Mcmaster.com is the best e-commerce site I've ever used
#5McMaster 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.
Re: Mcmaster.com is the best e-commerce site I've ever used
#6What a blast in the past, MMC was a client at the agency I was at and we pitched a lot of modernization updates.
Re: Mcmaster.com is the best e-commerce site I've ever used
#7If 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...
Besides the handy 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
Re: Mcmaster.com is the best e-commerce site I've ever used
#8My 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
Re: Mcmaster.com is the best e-commerce site I've ever used
#9Now 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?
Re: Mcmaster.com is the best e-commerce site I've ever used
#10I normally browse HN incognito on my phone but had to go to my desktop and login to say this: I fucking love MMC and their website. I got into woodworking during the pandemic and eventually built a loft bed for my son. I needed some very specific sizes of furniture bolts in small quantities and Amazon just didn't have what I needed. McMaster-Carr to the rescue!
I agree that they aren't the cheapest, but the quality is unimpeachable and the shipping is fast and reasonable even for small (i.e. retail) orders. I also love how everything in the catalog includes a brief but concise description of what it is used for.
Also, at the risk of perpetuating (largely accurate) stereotypes about gender psychology, it's clear that the website is designed around the typical male shopper: I am shopping to fulfill a very specific need and I want to acquire the solution as quickly and efficiently as possible.