"Theo Markettos" wrote in message
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Brian Gaff wrote:
Hmm, well, I liked Tandy I have to say, Unlike Maplin they had people who
know their stuff and they also sold hi fi that was pretty good, if a
little
flambouyant at times. all made to a high standard and by companies you
had
heard of, though rebadged as realistic.

Tandy were rather too keen on selling a single diode in an A6 blisterpack
and asking a quid for it. I used to go in for the purpose of laughing at
the prices. Which isn't too far different from the way Maplin is today,
in
fact.


The problem with Maplin now is when you want *two* of anything - they won't
reorder until there are precisely zero showing in stock, and they don't
appear to be able to cancel things off when they aren't actually there
(computer says no...), so if the last one (or one of the preceding) goes
missing they'll never actually order any more.

When they do order more, it's likely to be half a dozen or less, it seems -
I had to *put in an order* and wait a few days to get three (yes, three) 24V
bulbs that the "store search" said there were six of in my local shop...

Dave H. (the other one)