I've been doing a lot of ordering at work, and I've noticed a couple of
useful things:

http://onecall.farnell.com/ is a combination of the Farnell and CPC
catalogues. That means if you want to check the ranges of something at
both you can do it on one website.

OneCall is Farnell/CPC with the negotiated Higher Education discount (19% on
most things, excluding things like test equipment), though it doesn't show
the reduction until you're logged in with an institution-linked account.
What's interesting is that staff and students of appropriate HE institutions
can also get the discount for personal purchases (over 20 pounds value,
ordered online, free postage). You just ring them up and give them an
academic email address and they register you. First order must go to your
home address, then they ship elsewhere.

So if you have any university connections or know someone who does, you can
get substantial discounts...

Theo

On Aug 19, 11:01*pm, Theo Markettos theom
wrote:
I've been doing a lot of ordering at work, and I've noticed a couple of
useful things:

http://onecall.farnell.com/is a combination of the Farnell and CPC
catalogues. *That means if you want to check the ranges of something at
both you can do it on one website.

OneCall is Farnell/CPC with the negotiated Higher Education discount (19% on
most things, excluding things like test equipment), though it doesn't show
the reduction until you're logged in with an institution-linked account.
What's interesting is that staff and students of appropriate HE institutions
can also get the discount for personal purchases (over 20 pounds value,
ordered online, free postage). *You just ring them up and give them an
academic email address and they register you. *First order must go to your
home address, then they ship elsewhere.

So if you have any university connections or know someone who does, you can
get substantial discounts...

Theo

and rapidonline is way cheaper than farnell.

On Fri, 19 Aug 2011 23:01:54 +0100, Theo Markettos wrote:

I've been doing a lot of ordering at work, and I've noticed a couple of
useful things:

http://onecall.farnell.com/ is a combination of the Farnell and CPC
catalogues. That means if you want to check the ranges of something at
both you can do it on one website.

OneCall is Farnell/CPC with the negotiated Higher Education discount
(19% on most things, excluding things like test equipment), though it
doesn't show the reduction until you're logged in with an
institution-linked account. What's interesting is that staff and
students of appropriate HE institutions can also get the discount for
personal purchases (over 20 pounds value, ordered online, free postage).
You just ring them up and give them an academic email address and they
register you. First order must go to your home address, then they ship
elsewhere.

So if you have any university connections or know someone who does, you
can get substantial discounts...

I have and I will...

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On Fri, 19 Aug 2011 15:15:54 -0700, NT wrote:

On Aug 19, 11:01Â*pm, Theo Markettos theom
wrote:
I've been doing a lot of ordering at work, and I've noticed a couple of
useful things:

http://onecall.farnell.com/is a combination of the Farnell and CPC
catalogues. Â*That means if you want to check the ranges of something at
both you can do it on one website.

OneCall is Farnell/CPC with the negotiated Higher Education discount
(19% on most things, excluding things like test equipment), though it
doesn't show the reduction until you're logged in with an
institution-linked account. What's interesting is that staff and
students of appropriate HE institutions can also get the discount for
personal purchases (over 20 pounds value, ordered online, free
postage). Â*You just ring them up and give them an academic email
address and they register you. Â*First order must go to your home
address, then they ship elsewhere.

So if you have any university connections or know someone who does, you
can get substantial discounts...

Theo

and rapidonline is way cheaper than farnell.

But they don't stock as much....I do use them though.

Digikey is great if you don't mind £50 or so min order.



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On Aug 19, 11:01*pm, Theo Markettos theom
wrote:
http://onecall.farnell.com/is a combination of the Farnell and CPC
catalogues. *That means if you want to check the ranges of something at
both you can do it on one website.

That's nice, and not before time.

I use my CPC account a fair bit, but haven't done serious component-
level electronics for a few years. Now I'm back into it, I find that
Farnell can't register me as a new account because I "already exist"
in their database, but I can't log into it as it's a CPC account not a
Farnell account (?!). In the meantime, I went to RS to spend money.

Must be nice to have "too many" customers like this.

Bob Eager wrote:

On Fri, 19 Aug 2011 23:01:54 +0100, Theo Markettos wrote:

I've been doing a lot of ordering at work, and I've noticed a couple of
useful things:

http://onecall.farnell.com/ is a combination of the Farnell and CPC
catalogues. That means if you want to check the ranges of something at
both you can do it on one website.

OneCall is Farnell/CPC with the negotiated Higher Education discount
(19% on most things, excluding things like test equipment), though it
doesn't show the reduction until you're logged in with an
institution-linked account. What's interesting is that staff and
students of appropriate HE institutions can also get the discount for
personal purchases (over 20 pounds value, ordered online, free postage).
You just ring them up and give them an academic email address and they
register you. First order must go to your home address, then they ship
elsewhere.

So if you have any university connections or know someone who does, you
can get substantial discounts...

I have and I will...


Ditto - great tip there - thanks!

I noticed the not inconsiderable discount doing a university order for a
load of network cables today.

I'm off to regsiter now...

--
Tim Watts

Andy Dingley wrote:
I use my CPC account a fair bit, but haven't done serious component-
level electronics for a few years. Now I'm back into it, I find that
Farnell can't register me as a new account because I "already exist"
in their database, but I can't log into it as it's a CPC account not a
Farnell account (?!). In the meantime, I went to RS to spend money.

Their systems are puzzling. Rang up OneCall, who are really Farnell in
Leeds, at 18.30 tonight. They couldn't extract details from my CPC account,
because that's CPC in Preston and they'd closed by then. When I then went
to the OneCall website to register it wouldn't let me because my chosen
username already existed. I just made up a new username and it let me
register (think it needs human confirmation to show me the discount prices).
Though I was using a different address as well - have you tried that?

Theo

In message
,
Andy Dingley writes
On Aug 19, 11:01*pm, Theo Markettos theom
wrote:
http://onecall.farnell.com/is a combination of the Farnell and CPC
catalogues. *That means if you want to check the ranges of something at
both you can do it on one website.

That's nice, and not before time.

I use my CPC account a fair bit, but haven't done serious component-
level electronics for a few years. Now I'm back into it, I find that
Farnell can't register me as a new account because I "already exist"
in their database, but I can't log into it as it's a CPC account not a
Farnell account (?!). In the meantime, I went to RS to spend money.

I had a farnell account, but didn't use it for a few years

They still have me on the database, but can't reactivate it without me
applying for a new account. They wouldn't accept a week old CPC invoice
as proof of who we are

separate companies


and farnell are obviously not that fussed about retaining customers

--
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"Andy Dingley" wrote in message
...
On Aug 19, 11:01 pm, Theo Markettos theom
wrote:
http://onecall.farnell.com/is a combination of the Farnell and CPC
catalogues. That means if you want to check the ranges of something at
both you can do it on one website.

That's nice, and not before time.

I use my CPC account a fair bit, but haven't done serious component-
level electronics for a few years. Now I'm back into it, I find that
Farnell can't register me as a new account because I "already exist"
in their database, but I can't log into it as it's a CPC account not a
Farnell account (?!). In the meantime, I went to RS to spend money.

RS????????????? They pay you far too much
Robbing barstewards.

In article ,
Theo Markettos writes:
I've been doing a lot of ordering at work, and I've noticed a couple of
useful things:

http://onecall.farnell.com/ is a combination of the Farnell and CPC
catalogues. That means if you want to check the ranges of something at
both you can do it on one website.

OneCall is Farnell/CPC with the negotiated Higher Education discount (19% on
most things, excluding things like test equipment), though it doesn't show
the reduction until you're logged in with an institution-linked account.
What's interesting is that staff and students of appropriate HE institutions
can also get the discount for personal purchases (over 20 pounds value,
ordered online, free postage). You just ring them up and give them an
academic email address and they register you. First order must go to your
home address, then they ship elsewhere.

So if you have any university connections or know someone who does, you can
get substantial discounts...

When I worked for Sun, we were doing about 1 CPC order a week.
This was all personal suff, not related to work. CPC gave us a
special account which attracted a discount (10% I think, not as
much as 20%). Discount didn't apply to special offers. Delivery
had to be to one of Sun's offices.

--
Andrew Gabriel
[email address is not usable -- followup in the newsgroup]

In article ,
Bob Eager writes:
On Fri, 19 Aug 2011 15:15:54 -0700, NT wrote:

and rapidonline is way cheaper than farnell.

But they don't stock as much....I do use them though.

I do order from them occasionally, high power LEDs mainly.
I would order from them much more often if they didn't keep
losing the contents of my shopping basket. My method with CPC
is that I add things as I run out or as they occur to me, and
they might sit in the basket for weeks before the order is
placed. I started doing this with Rapid, but found that very
often, the whole basket had been lost when I logged in again.
This has lost them the business.

Digikey is great if you don't mind £50 or so min order.

I have used them when I've needed some specialist items, such
as motorised potentiometers.

--
Andrew Gabriel
[email address is not usable -- followup in the newsgroup]

In article ,
Theo Markettos writes:
Andy Dingley wrote:
I use my CPC account a fair bit, but haven't done serious component-
level electronics for a few years. Now I'm back into it, I find that
Farnell can't register me as a new account because I "already exist"
in their database, but I can't log into it as it's a CPC account not a
Farnell account (?!). In the meantime, I went to RS to spend money.

Their systems are puzzling. Rang up OneCall, who are really Farnell in
Leeds, at 18.30 tonight. They couldn't extract details from my CPC account,
because that's CPC in Preston and they'd closed by then. When I then went
to the OneCall website to register it wouldn't let me because my chosen
username already existed. I just made up a new username and it let me
register (think it needs human confirmation to show me the discount prices).

I don't think you ever see discount prices. It's all adjusted on
the account after the event (at least, that's how it worked with
us).

--
Andrew Gabriel
[email address is not usable -- followup in the newsgroup]

On 19/08/2011 23:01, Theo Markettos wrote:
So if you have any university connections or know someone who does, you can
get substantial discounts...


Can I have a 'daily mail' style rant [1] about students complaining
their funds (minus drink rations) don't go far, when the huge discounts
[2] they and businesses normally get are not available to retail
consumers that don't have kids, don't work in company, don't have
professional membership... yada yada....


[1] - i.e. issue doesn't directly affect me, but I feel I should
offended enough to wobble on this 'ere soap box, for the good of ??

[2] - www.software4students.co.uk


--
Adrian C

Andrew Gabriel wrote:

In article ,
Bob Eager writes:
On Fri, 19 Aug 2011 15:15:54 -0700, NT wrote:

and rapidonline is way cheaper than farnell.

But they don't stock as much....I do use them though.

I do order from them occasionally, high power LEDs mainly.
I would order from them much more often if they didn't keep
losing the contents of my shopping basket. My method with CPC
is that I add things as I run out or as they occur to me, and
they might sit in the basket for weeks before the order is
placed. I started doing this with Rapid, but found that very
often, the whole basket had been lost when I logged in again.
This has lost them the business.

Digikey is great if you don't mind £50 or so min order.

I have used them when I've needed some specialist items, such
as motorised potentiometers.


I find CPC to be the place to go for general server installations. Got the
patch leads, power stuff, tie wraps, velcro ties and labels.

They could do with having a better range of 19" fitments though. Only one
type of cable management bar and it's the ****ty type I hate...

Farnell for "proper" electronics.

Rapid for proper electronics and also educational toys - they have a
brilliant selection of magnets, kiddy friendly electronics and stuff

--
Tim Watts

On 20/08/11 12:15, Adrian C wrote:
On 19/08/2011 23:01, Theo Markettos wrote:
So if you have any university connections or know someone who does, you can
get substantial discounts...


Can I have a 'daily mail' style rant [1] about students complaining their
funds (minus drink rations) don't go far, when the huge discounts [2] they
and businesses normally get are not available to retail consumers that don't
have kids, don't work in company, don't have professional membership... yada
yada....


[1] - i.e. issue doesn't directly affect me, but I feel I should offended
enough to wobble on this 'ere soap box, for the good of ??

[2] - www.software4students.co.uk


Sign up for an OU course, get an NUS card, qualify for all the discounts.

Andrew Gabriel wrote:

In article ,
Theo Markettos writes:
Andy Dingley wrote:
I use my CPC account a fair bit, but haven't done serious component-
level electronics for a few years. Now I'm back into it, I find that
Farnell can't register me as a new account because I "already exist"
in their database, but I can't log into it as it's a CPC account not a
Farnell account (?!). In the meantime, I went to RS to spend money.

Their systems are puzzling. Rang up OneCall, who are really Farnell in
Leeds, at 18.30 tonight. They couldn't extract details from my CPC
account,
because that's CPC in Preston and they'd closed by then. When I then
went to the OneCall website to register it wouldn't let me because my
chosen
username already existed. I just made up a new username and it let me
register (think it needs human confirmation to show me the discount
prices).

I don't think you ever see discount prices. It's all adjusted on
the account after the event (at least, that's how it worked with
us).


We can see them. I cannot see them as I don't have access to our procument
system, but our secretary can check them via the system, that keys straight
into Onecall.

I generally form an order on the public CPC site, guess a 20% discount for
boss-head-nodding reasons, then just pass the CSV dump of my basket (that's
a nice feature BTW) to her and it's nice and clean opened as an Excel sheet
for her to key the code and quanties in.

Plus I know it's all instock from the public site...

--
Tim Watts

OneCall is Farnell/CPC with the negotiated Higher Education discount
(19% on most things, excluding things like test equipment), though it
doesn't show the reduction until you're logged in with an
institution-linked account. What's interesting is that staff and
students of appropriate HE institutions can also get the discount for
personal purchases (over 20 pounds value, ordered online, free
postage). You just ring them up and give them an academic email
address and they register you. First order must go to your home
address, then they ship elsewhere.

So if you have any university connections or know someone who does,
you can get substantial discounts...

I have and I will...

A thought:

a. I'd like 19% discount from Farnell/CPC;
b. I don't have an .ac.uk email address or anyone close enough with
one;
c. universities are allegedly short of money are looking to
increases revenues from trading activities and are also encouraged to
"outreach";
d. I'd be willing to pay a modest annual subscription for a
self-instructed, non-examined, distance learning course (eg "the history
of punched paper tape as a means of expanding student vocabularies")
which gave access to such an email address and a very basic email
service (eg limited bandwidth, small mailbox; or even just Webmail).


--
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PM may be sent to rbw0{at}hotmail{dot}com

Sign up for an OU course, get an NUS card, qualify for all the
discounts.
Last time I looked the OU fees were typically £195 for just a first step
course. I don't spend that much with CPC

--
Robin
PM may be sent to rbw0{at}hotmail{dot}com

On Aug 20, 10:26*am, (Andrew Gabriel)
wrote:
In article ,
* * * * Bob Eager writes:

On Fri, 19 Aug 2011 15:15:54 -0700, NT wrote:

and rapidonline is way cheaper than farnell.

But they don't stock as much....I do use them though.

I do order from them occasionally, high power LEDs mainly.
I would order from them much more often if they didn't keep
losing the contents of my shopping basket. My method with CPC
is that I add things as I run out or as they occur to me, and
they might sit in the basket for weeks before the order is
placed. I started doing this with Rapid, but found that very
often, the whole basket had been lost when I logged in again.
This has lost them the business.

Digikey is great if you don't mind £50 or so min order.

I have used them when I've needed some specialist items, such
as motorised potentiometers.

Rapid's website is a prime example of a site that makes a simple task
take forever. Its truly stupid.


NT

On Fri, 19 Aug 2011 15:49:51 -0700 (PDT), Andy Dingley
wrote:

In the meantime, I went to RS to spend money.

Despite being a customer for four decades, I'll *never* deal with
them again 'online' as their new 'improved' website offers the
crappiest user interface I've *ever* seen.

In article , The Other Mike
scribeth thus
On Fri, 19 Aug 2011 15:49:51 -0700 (PDT), Andy Dingley
wrote:

In the meantime, I went to RS to spend money.

Despite being a customer for four decades, I'll *never* deal with
them again 'online' as their new 'improved' website offers the
crappiest user interface I've *ever* seen.


Yes quite the kings new clothes. If they had any sense they'd just put
the old one back in place. I had to use the paper catalogue to find a
few items the other week.

Pile of doggie doo;(....

--
Tony Sayer

Adrian C wrote:
Can I have a 'daily mail' style rant [1] about students complaining
their funds (minus drink rations) don't go far, when the huge discounts
[2] they and businesses normally get are not available to retail
consumers that don't have kids, don't work in company, don't have
professional membership... yada yada....

Be my guest. Though this is not primarily a student discount scheme: the
discounts have been negotiated by a consortium of universities, because
universities spend a lot on components, both for teaching and research.
Staff/student discounts are just an extra side benefit (and I'm not
entirely sure why they provide it).

(Discounts are available to universities in the NUWPEC consortium: the Fred
Bloggs Garden Shed Academy doesn't count)

Student discounts for software are a different prospect entirely and are
more like student bank accounts: they want to get you hooked on MS
Windows/Office/etc so that you cough up for the full version later on.

Theo

On Sat, 20 Aug 2011 13:55:52 +0100, Tim Watts wrote:

Andrew Gabriel wrote:

In article , Bob Eager
writes:
On Fri, 19 Aug 2011 15:15:54 -0700, NT wrote:

and rapidonline is way cheaper than farnell.

But they don't stock as much....I do use them though.

I do order from them occasionally, high power LEDs mainly. I would
order from them much more often if they didn't keep losing the contents
of my shopping basket. My method with CPC is that I add things as I run
out or as they occur to me, and they might sit in the basket for weeks
before the order is placed. I started doing this with Rapid, but found
that very often, the whole basket had been lost when I logged in again.
This has lost them the business.

Digikey is great if you don't mind £50 or so min order.

I have used them when I've needed some specialist items, such as
motorised potentiometers.


I find CPC to be the place to go for general server installations. Got
the patch leads, power stuff, tie wraps, velcro ties and labels.

They could do with having a better range of 19" fitments though. Only
one type of cable management bar and it's the ****ty type I hate...

Farnell for "proper" electronics.

Rapid for proper electronics and also educational toys - they have a
brilliant selection of magnets, kiddy friendly electronics and stuff


I like Bitsbox for some odd bits. Mainly because the postage is always
1.50 and there is no minimum order charge. Quick service too! Not a big
range, but most of the essentials are there.

--
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Web: http://www.nascom.info
Filtering everything posted from googlegroups to kill spam.

In article ,
Theo Markettos wrote:

What's interesting is that staff and students of appropriate HE institutions
can also get the discount for personal purchases (over 20 pounds value,
ordered online, free postage). You just ring them up and give them an
academic email address and they register you. First order must go to your
home address, then they ship elsewhere.


Yep, discovered this accidentally a couple of years back when I ordered
something from CPC.

I have a credit card registered at my work address so I can get stuff
delivered there without hassle (from the supplier anyway...). I placed the
order, then got a phonecall a few mins later saying they would have to
cancel the order as it was an educational address but it was ok, they had
created me a onecall account and reordered there. They sorted it all.

Used them quite a few times since. Excellent

Darren

In article ,
Andrew Gabriel wrote:

I don't think you ever see discount prices. It's all adjusted on
the account after the event (at least, that's how it worked with
us).

Once you are logged into onecall you definately see the reduced prices (ex
VAT though IIRC).

Darren

On Sun, 21 Aug 2011 12:17:14 +0000, D.M.Chapman wrote:

In article , Theo Markettos
wrote:

What's interesting is that staff and students of appropriate HE
institutions can also get the discount for personal purchases (over 20
pounds value, ordered online, free postage). You just ring them up and
give them an academic email address and they register you. First order
must go to your home address, then they ship elsewhere.


Yep, discovered this accidentally a couple of years back when I ordered
something from CPC.

I have a credit card registered at my work address so I can get stuff
delivered there without hassle (from the supplier anyway...). I placed
the order, then got a phonecall a few mins later saying they would have
to cancel the order as it was an educational address but it was ok, they
had created me a onecall account and reordered there. They sorted it
all.

I've always had my CPC orders delivered to the same building as you, but
never got offered onecall. It isn't fair!

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