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Conrad Electronic to close all stores in Germany

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tooki:
As I said, the one here did carry Fluke, and likely others, too. No, they won’t have a Keysight scope laying around, but you could certainly walk out with a top-brand multimeter or soldering station.

madires:
Haven't bought anything from Conrad for a long time. A few decades back they had nice kits and resold some good stuff made in East Germany. A small lab PSU and another 13.8V PSU are still going strong.

david77:
Bought my first lab PSU from Conrad. 30V/3A with analog meters. Used it until it died from spontaneus combustion. It just sat there switched on but not in use, suddenly flames came out the top. It was not one of the GDR made ones.

Conrad also owes me a microphone stand that I mail ordered in 1993. Never delivered it.

nightfire:

--- Quote from: jfiresto on April 17, 2022, 07:05:15 am ---I have been purchasing from Reichelt since the late nineties, largely online but sometimes will call. I find they are generally quite good, especially for small quantities: for nearly all items, there is no quantity discount.


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I had the pleasure of really seeing Reichelt being able to grow from a basement-based mail-order shop to the size it has today- I remember visiting my Uncle (RIP) in Wilhelmshaven about 40 years ago, and we went to buy some crocodile clips he needed for some tinkering as he was freshly retired back then- that was their second adress after they moved out from the basement where everything started- their catalogue was something about 30 photocopied pages...

Some years after that I was a student and moved there for a few years, and Reichelt was becoming bigger and bigger and just moved to Sande, some small suburbial area near Wilhelmshaven- basically a very big storage like amazon with some small attached "store" area- basically you would order stuff from the catalogue and some time later, a plastic cradle would appear from the roll basket line with your stuff inside...
Then Angelika Reichelt, the founder, retired and now Reichelt as a company belongs to the Dätwyler holding- and some dimensions have changed...

jfiresto:
I probably should have written that Reichelt is "pretty good" rather than quite good. I reckon their line-item error rate has been less than half of a percent, but I could probably drive it higher by the unfortunate choice of parts. They have, however, always made things right, but sometimes not without putting up some bureaucratic resistance.

Lately, I have been purchasing from tme.eu. They have been a good experience so far, although their enthusiasm for paperwork is something else.

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