On Tue, 22 Feb 2005 02:30:27 -0800, the renowned "Watson A.Name -
\"Watt Sun, the Dark Remover\"" wrote:


"Robert Baer" wrote in message
...
Ol' Duffer wrote:

Their pricing doth truly suck sometimes, but on the good
side they stock most of the stuff in their catalogs (and
then some), as opposed to some "other" distributors whose
catalogs might be characterized as vaporware.

I wonder sometimes how much they spend printing catalogs
every two months, which always seemed excessive to me.
I'd have thought twice a year would be plenty.

If you noticed, each newer catalog has *more* parts; more brands,
more
variety, more types, etc.

... Higher prices, less quantity price breaks, etc., etc. Oh, did I
mention, higher prices..

I just love wotking on the PCs in our Purchasing Dept. :-/ They have a
whole shelf full of janitorial supply catalogs. Just think, if we could
only gwt all these catalogs and paper towels recycled, we'd save a whole
continent of forests..

Those janitorial supply guys have *really* high prices. Between
telephone directories, Mouser, Digikey, trade rags, paper packing and
EEM, the recycling box is never hungry. A few printouts don't amount
to much, and the few newspapers tend to get used for packing, which is
lighter than that recycled paper packing that Digikey uses.


Best regards,
Spehro Pefhany
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