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Offline Berni

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Re: Avnet have purchased Element14
« Reply #25 on: March 06, 2019, 05:22:22 pm »
Yeah the website filters are especially broken recently.

Tho from my experience farnells website just slowly drifts trough varying degrees of "brokenness". At some point it was so broken i was using octopart to search farnell, at other points it all works, just the categories are silly and nonsense.

Tho i quite often search for parts on Digikey, once i find parts i like i copy paste the partnumber into Farnell to check if they got it.
 

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Re: Avnet have purchased Element14
« Reply #26 on: March 06, 2019, 05:41:29 pm »
I do that with digikey as well  :-DD

LCSC is better than Farnell now and that's saying something.
 

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Re: Avnet have purchased Element14
« Reply #27 on: March 06, 2019, 05:42:21 pm »
Another comment I have is that recently they’ve started pushing alternatives, which has been common with the recent cap shortages. Sadly the recommended alternatives are far from the cheapest option, so it’s no help really.
 

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Re: Avnet have purchased Element14
« Reply #28 on: March 06, 2019, 09:20:33 pm »
Don't they publish their results?

They do, but for the company as a whole, not separated out into different corporate components.
 

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Re: Avnet have purchased Element14
« Reply #29 on: March 07, 2019, 09:38:11 am »
I did notice the change removed the minimum order value for free postage for account customers though. It always used to be free postage no matter what value, then they tried a £20 min value, dropped to £10 and now it's back to £0. My discount seems unaffected.

Ohh that's interesting, I switched to RS years ago when Farnell decided to get unfriendly!
Time for another look perhaps as I hate the high MOQ's at RS and and particularly that you cannot include them as a search criteria.

Ahh not quite, just got this off there website
Order Value   Delivery & Handling Cost
£20 and above (Exc. VAT) - Online orders   FREE
£0 - £19.99 (Exc. VAT) - Online orders   £3.95  FREE - Trade account holders only
£0 - £19.99 (Exc. VAT) - Online orders   £3.95 - Non-Trade account holders
£0 - £29.99 (Exc. VAT) - Offline orders   £6.95

I think it depends on your contract with them. Those are just the general costs.
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Re: Avnet have purchased Element14
« Reply #30 on: March 08, 2019, 03:10:00 pm »
And I just discovered that Farnell no longer allows consumers in Switzerland to order. They now refer you to a “partner” with a website so bad that I don’t have words for it, and with only a subset of products. Not sure when this change happened, but it ensures I’ll never use them.
 

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Re: Avnet have purchased Element14
« Reply #31 on: May 03, 2019, 04:03:40 pm »
Hah, it gets worse!

If you go to ch.farnell.com and try to register an account, it gives you the choice between business and consumer sales, and if you click consumer, it automatically forwards you to the partner website... which now says “No longer in service. Consumers in Switzerland can now order from farnell.ch again.”

farnell.ch just takes you to the Farnell worldwide site selector.

So no, consumers in Switzerland still can’t order from Farnell...
 

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Re: Avnet have purchased Element14
« Reply #32 on: May 03, 2019, 04:42:43 pm »
That was changed here in holland also two years or so ago.
There is now a second business in between also scraping some money of the consumer sales.
 

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Re: Avnet have purchased Element14
« Reply #33 on: May 20, 2019, 08:48:53 pm »
Maybe not related to the more prominent takeover, but basically all ICs I've ordered from them a year ago are now all discontinued at Farnell, fortunately all of these available at Mouser...  :phew:
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Re: Avnet have purchased Element14
« Reply #34 on: May 21, 2019, 12:24:41 am »
Maybe not related to the more prominent takeover, but basically all ICs I've ordered from them a year ago are now all discontinued at Farnell, fortunately all of these available at Mouser...  :phew:
I'm noticing the same. Farnell is purging a lot of chips from their catalog. Not a smart move because I order from Mouser OR Farnell. Not both so if there is one item I need to order from Mouser then I order everything from Mouser.
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Re: Avnet have purchased Element14
« Reply #35 on: May 21, 2019, 07:09:46 am »
Have also noticed this. Wanted some LT ICs which shown as discontinued but still active on Analog.com and in stock on mouser. Interestingly RS have also stopped stocking them as well about the same time. Wonder if it’s a supplier problem.

Edit: actually could this be RoHS related?
 

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Re: Avnet have purchased Element14
« Reply #36 on: May 21, 2019, 07:16:37 am »
Maybe not related to the more prominent takeover, but basically all ICs I've ordered from them a year ago are now all discontinued at Farnell, fortunately all of these available at Mouser...  :phew:
I'm noticing the same. Farnell is purging a lot of chips from their catalog. Not a smart move because I order from Mouser OR Farnell. Not both so if there is one item I need to order from Mouser then I order everything from Mouser.

Same here. After you go over a value, shipping gets free, so I combine if I can. And as you say, if one has crucial parts, usually they get the whole order..
 

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Re: Avnet have purchased Element14
« Reply #37 on: May 21, 2019, 08:47:25 am »
Have also noticed this. Wanted some LT ICs which shown as discontinued but still active on Analog.com and in stock on mouser. Interestingly RS have also stopped stocking them as well about the same time. Wonder if it’s a supplier problem.

Edit: actually could this be RoHS related?

the parts would have to be *very* old stock to be tinned with leaded solder.
maybe they are just dumping stuff that hardly sells to concentrate on the stuff that actually moves.
 

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Re: Avnet have purchased Element14
« Reply #38 on: May 21, 2019, 08:51:05 am »
I've had stuff delivered recently from them that had 2003 datecode on it so YMMV there. There are however new RoHS directive this year which ban more than just lead.

You are probably right however.

 

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Re: Avnet have purchased Element14
« Reply #39 on: August 12, 2019, 06:01:38 pm »
Painful.  Avoid E14 if you are from Singapore or Malaysia.  I am not sure are Australia and NZ affected.  The customer service has been transferred to some incompetent back office in India.  They kept giving me wrong information about my order repeatedly.  After confirming the order for 1 week, I got an email to say the order could not be fulfilled.  Turn up is only for 1 item.  But each time the CS said some thing unusual that is against what the website says, they turn up to be wrong.   Anyway I am yet to receive my parts after 1 week.
 

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Re: Avnet have purchased Element14
« Reply #40 on: August 21, 2019, 12:31:33 pm »
So... they bought "Sand"... (element-14 Silicon).
Can I order a truck load for my driveway please....  8)
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Re: Avnet have purchased Element14
« Reply #41 on: August 21, 2019, 01:09:12 pm »
 |O How did I never notice that.
 

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Re: Avnet have purchased Element14
« Reply #42 on: September 07, 2019, 12:00:23 pm »
And I just discovered that Farnell no longer allows consumers in Switzerland to order. They now refer you to a “partner” with a website so bad that I don’t have words for it, and with only a subset of products. Not sure when this change happened, but it ensures I’ll never use them.
Hah, it gets worse!

If you go to ch.farnell.com and try to register an account, it gives you the choice between business and consumer sales, and if you click consumer, it automatically forwards you to the partner website... which now says “No longer in service. Consumers in Switzerland can now order from farnell.ch again.”

farnell.ch just takes you to the Farnell worldwide site selector.

So no, consumers in Switzerland still can’t order from Farnell...

And now it still won't let consumers register, and attempting to still redirects to the partner website, which now says “No longer in service. We are working on a new shopping solution for consumers in Switzerland.”

What the hell is wrong with these people?!?
 

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Re: Avnet have purchased Element14
« Reply #43 on: September 12, 2019, 06:25:37 am »
E14 price was no good, but other parts were working well, but new owners did not improve on the price (at least not yet) but was destroying what was working with old E14.  I put in a bad reviews and was rejected.  Normally the most valuable part of buying over a company is the customer base, new owner is buying over to destroy it so far.
 

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Re: Avnet have purchased Element14
« Reply #44 on: September 12, 2019, 08:47:06 am »
It’s actually working pretty well for me. They fixed all the weird issues, the parametric search seems to work and the “fuck you” checkout has been replaced with something useable.
 
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