Surely you can at least get a bunch of forms ahead of time and pre-fill them, and as a self-employed person, choose a time when the PO isn't busy...
But for run-of-the mill things like multmeters, I'm sure there are enough potential buyers in Oz that offering international shippping wouldn't increase the price-to-hassle ratio sufficiently, and there isn't any shortage of this sort of stuff.
I always offer to ship ANYTHING internationally. We have courier brokers in the UK which can use their volume discount to get decent pricing with Fed-ex, UPS, DHL and TNT. Book online, and a man comes the next day to pick the package up. Easy! You get full and complete tracking too which Paypal loves if there's any dispute. So why NOT offer it?
I hate the post office for the same reasons as Dave, it's a pain in the arse. Couriers are definitely the way to go.
I can assure you that here in Oz, the PO is much nicer option than a courier for the casual shipper.
Tek never made multimeters. They are escort designsHi Vincent,
Can you expand on the relationship between Tek and Escort? I'm interested in learning all these past/present ODM/OEM relationships.
From my own research, I thought the Tek DMM 912/914/916 were made by Appatech?Oh crap, you may be right. It could be APPA too. I know the tek power supplies with the runner keypad and red led displays were the same oem like ten a and many others. Escort at one point made stuff for metex, wavetek, hp and many others including tek. Tek had a function generator made by leader as well . I believe also a frequency counter.
At one point escort became sort of a hp only thing and finally they were borged by agilent.
As for the post from the member asking how much it cost, I assume he must be single or his wife doesn't have a computer.
As for the post from the member asking how much it cost, I assume he must be single or his wife doesn't have a computer.I get the feeling Dave exceeded the SWMBO non pre approved discretionary spending on 'junk' limit. As we all know, the fact that is 'good value' never holds water with a SWMBO...
1) Get an account with a local courier service, like TNT, DHL, Fedex, etc, the one that has good pricing
This seems to be at the root of western societies mental problems !
Microshit borged that when they acquired the semiconductor division from vishay.
I hate using diskettes to save traces - how bloody archaic and annoying. We have to keep an old IBM clone to copy the images.
It is a not a very good CRO and I am looking to replace it with something better.
You do know you can get USB floppy drives very cheap don't you....?
It is a not a very good CRO and I am looking to replace it with something better.I agree, it's a bad cathode ray oscilloscope. The cathode ray tube sucks (due to being absent), only the oscilloscope part works. This makes it only a 33% working CRO. A Tek 465 would make a much better CRO.