Anybody buy misc. hardware online?

[brainanator]

I'd love to go to my local Ace harware or homedepot, but they have a very limited selection of smaller hardware, almost no metric hardware, maybe 5 kinds of small metric hardware, and nothing that I really need....lol.

So I was wondering if anybody knows of a decent place to buy hardware online? I don't want to buy the hobby hardware, as the price is ramped up 10x what it would cost at a hardware store.

I'm mainly looking for stuff like bearing and gear shims, small machine thread screws and coarse thread screws (3-5mm), hex head would be most desirable, small nuts for the screws (insert joke here about small nuts), etc, etc.

There might not be a place online....and I'm not looking to buy boxes of screws...more like 4-10 of the item, which makes places online hard to find.

Thanks guys.