I've posted about this before, because it really irritates me too!
I can't go along with the idea 'supporting smallbear' when their metal-filmresistors are so much more expensive. I order plenty of stuff from them, of course, but not resistors. There may be reasons why, but I just won't order those. Ordering in 100s clogs my bench, and I like the (idea) of having every value I can concieve of using available...which adds up to a lot of (unused) resistors. RG recommends it and I understand his perspective, but while I do plan on doing electronics for a long time to come, 'clutter' has a cost--I'm on a monetary budget, and a space budget, so I need something that works with both.
Digikey had some for cheap (.03 cents per) if you ordered ten or more. That's long gone. The cheapest onces I could find that I just ordered from mouser turned out to be super small carbon films, with really off colors, so I have to meter most of them. My fault for not inspecting the datasheet--I'm abandoning those!
In the end, I really dislike futurlec, but for resistors, they're great. That's predominantly where I got mine from the start, but have since wanted more values and or 10 or so more here and there. They work out to 1 cent a piece for carbon film and 2 cents each for metal film, and you only need to get 10 for that price. Effects connection is a good compromise on metal films at 25 for a dollar, but with limited values (sigh). Even PPP at .08 each is cheaper, in most cases, than the majority of stuff available through the big guys and smallbear, sadly. I've got enough resistors to get me through for a while, so I can deal with their 2-3 week shipping wait times and frustrations for resistors and stay pro-active about what values I'll need months in advance....I may not bother to order anything else from futurlec, but for resistors, I guess I'm resigning to that compromise rather than paying around a dollars for five resistors or having thousands and tens of thousands of resistors taking up more space somewhere in my tiny apartment when a dozen of most values is plenty, for a while.