In article .com,
Kev wrote:
This used to wind me up at RS. They will only deal with trade and as I
very infrequently buy from them, I don't use much electronic stuff, I
don't bother with an account so I always have to take proof that I am
in a trade.

This simply isn't true. Anyone with a credit or debit card can establish a
'cash' account and buy from them. So no different from most 'mail' order
places.

They never the less still want my deatils for the system
despite the fact that the next time I go back and purchase something
they wouldn't look up their records and see that I had bought from
them before, I would still have to take evidence with me.
As a consequence I only ever use them as a last resort. I prefer to
del with businesses that actually want me a customer.

If you're talking about their trade counters, they don't want 'Maplin'
type customers wasting their and their customer's time. Wish more
nominally trade places were the same.

The original idea of this was to protect their main customers businesses
by not selling direct to their *potential* customers.

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