On Wed, 6 Jul 2005 23:23:52 -0700, "PrecisionMachinisT"
wrote:


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roups.com...
Anybody have any tips for prying a catalog out of McMaster-Carr? I've
placed 2 orders and both times I asked for a catalog also but I've
never gotten one.


I think the deal is you need to have a Brad & Dunstreet rating, and apply
for a net 30 account with them......

Probly also helps if you happen to spend several grand / year with them.

When I first started ordering from them I asked for
a catalog. The salesperson asked if I had an old
one (or how did I know what to order?). I answered
that I had a three year old catalog liberated from
someone else. She replied that McMaster-Carr considered
that to be a current catalog. I kept on ordering
occasionally and discovered their improved web site,
and ordered a little more often. After about three years
of ordering 4 or 5 times a year a catalog arrived, and
a new one every year since. I have no D&B rating nor
open account, just regular ordering. It paid off for
them. When I began to build a new (large, complicated)
house, I began ordering VERY regularly; the stack of
receipts is now well over a foot thick, with a few
of them running to several thousands. I might have
turned elsewhere if I hadn't begun receiving catalogs.

As a side note, I have five or six people who get my
superceded catalogs who have all seen the speed and
quality I get from McM-C. A new generation of customers
from one catalog recipient.

--
--Pete
"Peter W. Meek"
http://www.msen.com/~pwmeek/