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fourtytwo42:

--- Quote from: veedub565 on February 20, 2021, 02:55:03 pm ---However the prize for most robbing bstrds has to go to Farnell. A couple of metal film resistors and a handful of ceramic caps came to £18.46 which is a lot, but I needed them so hey ho. When I came to pay for them though they then added on, ahem.. £15.95 shipping, £9.95 handling charge, and £8.87 VAT bringing the total to £53.24 for a few cheap caps and a couple of resistors. The £15.95 was because one of the items was located in their US warehouse. Removing that item knocked a bit off but still expensive.

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Spot on, they got me like that too in the past, also they seem to stop order processing before lunch on Friday and don't start again till late Monday morning, add to that a 2 day delivery delay and boy can you wait a long time for parts usually when your in a rush!

RS has gone nuts on MOQ's like there trying to supply factories only but there prices are way to high for that so there in some weird place, I have almost given up searching for anything there as the MOQ is nearly always something stupid.

Trouble with bay is a lot of it is grey market, unknown parentage, so IMOP component supply in the UK sucks ATM.
Ohh I almost forgot there's the people who when you buy once are forever feeding on your credit card just to support Bezos's lifestyle  :)

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