On 09/04/2020 12:35, Adam Funk wrote:
On 2020-04-09, Steve Walker wrote:
On 09/04/2020 12:03, Peter Parry wrote:
Electronics Weekly has a report of the re launch of Maplin Electronics
(www.maplin.co.uk) as an on-line retailer
https://www.electronicsweekly.com/ne...duino-2020-03/
They'll have to make a good job of it and keep the prices down too. When
Maplin had become far more expensive than RS and never had more than a
few of each item in stock, it had clearly lost its way.
Mail order it would have to compete with RS, Farnell (plus their CPC
arm), Jaycar, Amazon and Ebay - and, for me at least, RS and CPC have
the advantage of trade counters for urgent purchases and Amazon has very
quick deliveries.
Also Pimoroni for fun stuff & kits, & AliExpress for cheap but not at
all urgent components.
Rapid electronics
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