In article ,
wrote:
On Friday, 19 June 2015 12:16:28 UTC+1, Dave Plowman (News) wrote:
In article , nt
wrote:
On Thursday, 18 June 2015 17:11:30 UTC+1, Dave Plowman (News) wrote:

If I ran somewhere where safety critical parts had to be bought in
- perhaps by someone not particularly qualified to do so - I'm not
sure I'd allow them to use Ebay either. There is a lot of junk
sold on there. As well as some good stuff.

Probably safer to stick to the likes of RS Components for things
like mains leads.

Properly specced mains leads are very widely available, so no sense
paying RS's barmy prices.


The point I was making is can you be sure they will be 'properly
specced' when bought from Ebay?

I wouldn't guarantee it. But would from the likes of RS.

Obviously not buying from RS does not imply buying from ebay

Never said or even implied it did.

Ebay sell rubbish as well as decent stuff.

The *likes* of RS don't sell rubbish.


NT

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On Friday, 19 June 2015 14:45:39 UTC+1, Dave Plowman (News) wrote:
In article ,
nt wrote:
On Friday, 19 June 2015 12:16:28 UTC+1, Dave Plowman (News) wrote:
In article , nt
wrote:
On Thursday, 18 June 2015 17:11:30 UTC+1, Dave Plowman (News) wrote:

If I ran somewhere where safety critical parts had to be bought in
- perhaps by someone not particularly qualified to do so - I'm not
sure I'd allow them to use Ebay either. There is a lot of junk
sold on there. As well as some good stuff.

Probably safer to stick to the likes of RS Components for things
like mains leads.

Properly specced mains leads are very widely available, so no sense
paying RS's barmy prices.


The point I was making is can you be sure they will be 'properly
specced' when bought from Ebay?

I wouldn't guarantee it. But would from the likes of RS.

Obviously not buying from RS does not imply buying from ebay

Never said or even implied it did.

That would make your point unnecessary. It had been made further upthread, and is no mystery.


Ebay sell rubbish as well as decent stuff.

The *likes* of RS don't sell rubbish.

No, RS is ordinary but thoroughly specced stuff, but at prices almost never worth paying. Any company buying from RS without a very sound reason deserves to go bust.


NT

In article ,
wrote:
Obviously not buying from RS does not imply buying from ebay

Never said or even implied it did.

That would make your point unnecessary. It had been made further
upthread, and is no mystery.

Makes your comment even more unnecessary, then. ;-)

Ebay sell rubbish as well as decent stuff.

The *likes* of RS don't sell rubbish.

No, RS is ordinary but thoroughly specced stuff, but at prices almost
never worth paying. Any company buying from RS without a very sound
reason deserves to go bust.

RS can be extremely competitive depending on what you buy and how much of
it.

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On Fri, 19 Jun 2015 04:05:00 -0700 (PDT), whisky-dave
wrote:

On Thursday, 18 June 2015 22:37:15 UTC+1, wrote:
On Thursday, 18 June 2015 19:17:44 UTC+1, Andy Burns wrote:


Wendy Appleby: Academic Registry Senior Executive

ha

that's strange I tried our search
http://www.dir.qmul.ac.uk/search?ter...eby&option=any

and it didn't find her.

She was only the document checker in 2012. Google tells us that she
moved to UCL in 2014. Her acronym is now URAHOSARS, You can select
whatever letters you like out of that if it amuses you.
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On Friday, 19 June 2015 17:16:52 UTC+1, wrote:
On Friday, 19 June 2015 14:45:39 UTC+1, Dave Plowman (News) wrote:
In article ,
nt wrote:
On Friday, 19 June 2015 12:16:28 UTC+1, Dave Plowman (News) wrote:
In article , nt
wrote:
On Thursday, 18 June 2015 17:11:30 UTC+1, Dave Plowman (News) wrote:

If I ran somewhere where safety critical parts had to be bought in
- perhaps by someone not particularly qualified to do so - I'm not
sure I'd allow them to use Ebay either. There is a lot of junk
sold on there. As well as some good stuff.

Probably safer to stick to the likes of RS Components for things
like mains leads.

Properly specced mains leads are very widely available, so no sense
paying RS's barmy prices.


The point I was making is can you be sure they will be 'properly
specced' when bought from Ebay?

I wouldn't guarantee it. But would from the likes of RS.

Obviously not buying from RS does not imply buying from ebay

Never said or even implied it did.

That would make your point unnecessary. It had been made further upthread, and is no mystery.


Ebay sell rubbish as well as decent stuff.

The *likes* of RS don't sell rubbish.

No, RS is ordinary but thoroughly specced stuff, but at prices almost never worth paying. Any company buying from RS without a very sound reason deserves to go bust.

We use RS when we need to, if RS have the item in stock and can get it to
us next day then rather than wait day/weeks from another supplier even if the other supplier is cheaper.

In article ,
whisky-dave wrote:
We use RS when we need to, if RS have the item in stock and can get it
to us next day then rather than wait day/weeks from another supplier
even if the other supplier is cheaper.

Any decent electronics supplier offers fast delivery as a historical
thing. Including CPC and Rapid. Even Maplin did once.

I tend to use CPC for the free delivery and smaller minimum charge. So
don't mind if I have to wait a little longer. But even then, much of their
stuff arrives the next day.

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On Tuesday, 23 June 2015 13:09:59 UTC+1, Dave Plowman (News) wrote:
In article ,
whisky-dave wrote:

We use RS when we need to, if RS have the item in stock and can get it
to us next day then rather than wait day/weeks from another supplier
even if the other supplier is cheaper.

Any decent electronics supplier offers fast delivery as a historical
thing. Including CPC and Rapid. Even Maplin did once.

Indeed. Unless you need exceptional amounts of data on middling quality products, buying from RS does not suggest good business practice to me.

I tend to use CPC for the free delivery and smaller minimum charge. So
don't mind if I have to wait a little longer. But even then, much of their
stuff arrives the next day.

In article ,
wrote:
Any decent electronics supplier offers fast delivery as a historical
thing. Including CPC and Rapid. Even Maplin did once.

Indeed. Unless you need exceptional amounts of data on middling quality
products, buying from RS does not suggest good business practice to me.

Dunno current practice, but at one time RS gave rebates to account
customers based on how much they spent over say a year. So the catalogue
price may not have been the true one for large accounts.

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On Tuesday, 23 June 2015 14:34:39 UTC+1, Dave Plowman (News) wrote:
In article ,
wrote:
Any decent electronics supplier offers fast delivery as a historical
thing. Including CPC and Rapid. Even Maplin did once.

Indeed. Unless you need exceptional amounts of data on middling quality
products, buying from RS does not suggest good business practice to me.

Dunno current practice, but at one time RS gave rebates to account
customers based on how much they spent over say a year. So the catalogue
price may not have been the true one for large accounts.

WE get educational discount, so when you logon 'our' price is shown.
as an example 537-3921
Was £0.163
List Price £0.068
You Pay £0.061
Price Each (In a Pack of 25)

On Tuesday, 23 June 2015 14:43:54 UTC+1, whisky-dave wrote:
On Tuesday, 23 June 2015 14:34:39 UTC+1, Dave Plowman (News) wrote:
In article ,
nt wrote:

Any decent electronics supplier offers fast delivery as a historical
thing. Including CPC and Rapid. Even Maplin did once.

Indeed. Unless you need exceptional amounts of data on middling quality
products, buying from RS does not suggest good business practice to me.

Dunno current practice, but at one time RS gave rebates to account
customers based on how much they spent over say a year. So the catalogue
price may not have been the true one for large accounts.

WE get educational discount, so when you logon 'our' price is shown.
as an example 537-3921
Was £0.163
List Price £0.068
You Pay £0.061
Price Each (In a Pack of 25)

Its a long time since I was involved in weaning who I worked for off RS, but the prices then were way too high for that much discount to make any real difference. By the time we were done there really was nothing worth buying from them. I always liked the data sheets though.


NT

In article ,
scribeth thus
On Tuesday, 23 June 2015 14:43:54 UTC+1, whisky-dave wrote:
On Tuesday, 23 June 2015 14:34:39 UTC+1, Dave Plowman (News) wrote:
In article ,
nt wrote:

Any decent electronics supplier offers fast delivery as a historical
thing. Including CPC and Rapid. Even Maplin did once.

Indeed. Unless you need exceptional amounts of data on middling quality
products, buying from RS does not suggest good business practice to me.

Dunno current practice, but at one time RS gave rebates to account
customers based on how much they spent over say a year. So the catalogue
price may not have been the true one for large accounts.

WE get educational discount, so when you logon 'our' price is shown.
as an example 537-3921
Was £0.163
List Price £0.068
You Pay £0.061
Price Each (In a Pack of 25)

Its a long time since I was involved in weaning who I worked for off RS, but the
prices then were way too high for that much discount to make any real
difference. By the time we were done there really was nothing worth buying from
them. I always liked the data sheets though.


NT

Well you say that but RS are still here and have been around for a long
time and expand their range etc, they must be doing something right so
why are they still here why haven't they fell by the wayside?....

Why?...
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On Wednesday, 24 June 2015 00:48:49 UTC+1, wrote:
On Tuesday, 23 June 2015 14:43:54 UTC+1, whisky-dave wrote:
On Tuesday, 23 June 2015 14:34:39 UTC+1, Dave Plowman (News) wrote:
In article ,
nt wrote:

Any decent electronics supplier offers fast delivery as a historical
thing. Including CPC and Rapid. Even Maplin did once.

Indeed. Unless you need exceptional amounts of data on middling quality
products, buying from RS does not suggest good business practice to me.

Dunno current practice, but at one time RS gave rebates to account
customers based on how much they spent over say a year. So the catalogue
price may not have been the true one for large accounts.

WE get educational discount, so when you logon 'our' price is shown.
as an example 537-3921
Was £0.163
List Price £0.068
You Pay £0.061
Price Each (In a Pack of 25)

Its a long time since I was involved in weaning who I worked for off RS, but the prices then were way too high for that much discount to make any real difference. By the time we were done there really was nothing worth buying from them. I always liked the data sheets though.

our prices when logged in.

Arduino uno X1 X10 prices excluding VAT
farnell/cpc/onecall £15.34 £14.88
RS £15.60 £13.50
rapid £15.95 £15.95
coolcomponents £18.49 £16.64
proto-pic £15.54 £15.54
Maplin ~£20 £24.99 each including VAT

if anyone knows of a cheaper uno supplier, we buy in 10s or 20s about every 3 months or so.
Every so often we do find things cheaper at RS.

one thing they do right is that the product is almost always in stock and if not the due date is pretty accurate.

On Wednesday, 24 June 2015 09:39:46 UTC+1, tony sayer wrote:
In article ,
nt scribeth thus

Its a long time since I was involved in weaning who I worked for off RS, but the
prices then were way too high for that much discount to make any real
difference. By the time we were done there really was nothing worth buying from
them. I always liked the data sheets though.

Well you say that but RS are still here and have been around for a long
time and expand their range etc, they must be doing something right so
why are they still here why haven't they fell by the wayside?....

Why?...

I don't know. Maybe they've crafted their image well. Maybe as whisky-dave says they're competitive on occasion. Who knows.


NT

In article ,
wrote:
Its a long time since I was involved in weaning who I worked for off RS,
but the prices then were way too high for that much discount to make any
real difference. By the time we were done there really was nothing worth
buying from them. I always liked the data sheets though.

I think you're probably right about a long time ago. But then they didn't
have anything like the competition they have now.

And they do carry an impressive range. Some things you simply can't buy
elsewhere.

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