Samples in Europe?

[anfang]

Has anybody in Europe ordered samples from companies as a private person/Uni student and actually got them?

I have read stories about TI samples being sent from the US to the EU and incurring in shipping and customs charges in the order of hundreds of euros.

Do you have any successful experience with receiving samples in the EU? With which companies?

[Jeroen3]

Samples from TI, Linear, AD and ST were no problem using my university mail.
They ship express, no cost for you. Unless customs think otherwise, but they use courier like ups/dhl. They handle this internally.

[pyroesp]

I used to order samples from Microchip and never had trouble.
I used my university e-mail, or my website's e-mail.

[chris_leyson]

I've had connector samples from Harwin, Samtec and Binder but only if they were on long lead times or not stocked.

[Srbel]

I had received a couple of voltage regulators samples from Linear Technology, a few years ago. I registered with my private e-mail address. I was a student then, but did not have a student e-mail. The postman had just handed them to me, without any payments. It was written on the envelope that postage was payed.

[Molenaar]

No problems here with samples from ST, TI and AMS.

[anfang]

Thank you everybody for your answers.

A last question: do manufacturers ship samples in boxes or in envelopes?

[JPortici]

Has anybody in Europe ordered samples from companies as a private person/Uni student and actually got them?

I have read stories about TI samples being sent from the US to the EU and incurring in shipping and customs charges in the order of hundreds of euros.

Do you have any successful experience with receiving samples in the EU? With which companies?

yep. many times. with microchip and ST though.
i had an account with analog and TI too with institutional email but i never ordered from them

[Srbel]

Thank you everybody for your answers.

A last question: do manufacturers ship samples in boxes or in envelopes?

My 2 chips from Linear came in an envelope.

[128er]

Ordered five pieces of the MC33880 from NXP a few month ago. They are 3-4€ each in low quantity at Mouser. Shipped with UPS, no costs for me. Had no problems. Very nice from NXP, thank you 

Will buy a few more of them, cause they worked very well for me.