There are a few milestones in life that signal graduation to the next level. Your first drivers license, Your first marriage, your first divorce, the AARP letter and today I reached the ultimate milestone.
Today I received a REAL NEW McMaster-Carr catalog in the mail. Unsolicited! M/C has finally recognized my little antique and Chinese shop as a real customer!
OK, now share with us how you did it. Do you spend a lot with them?
Lane
I just picked up one today from one of the buyers in our procurement department. He got a shipment of 20 to distribute as he saw fit amongst
3,000+ employees. I should have brought him donuts!
Donuts? I think he wants more than that,...
;)
Joel. phx
I just threw out the last four years, together with the last couple of years of the MSC catalogue. They were just taking up too much space on the shelf.
I never quite got what is so special about the Mc.Master-Carr catalogue. Their prices are higher than almost anyone elses in the entire country.
Abrasha
Don't know how you did it! When I was actively engaged in running my commercial machine shop, I sent a request for their catalog on my letterhead and wasn't given so much as the courtesy of a reply. I never did hear from them, ever. I also never spent any of my money with them, nor do I care to now. There are other suppliers that are willing to provide their goods and services to others without making them feel insignificant. I restrict my business to them.
Harold
Abrasha wrote in news: snipped-for-privacy@abrasha.com:
What little they are higher than most is made up for in delivery and service. Almost everything I order from McMaster arrives the next day, (order time dependent) without additional shipping charges.
The other end of the spectrum is Digikey. They are also a bit expensive but have great service- with them its apparently difficult to stop the catalogs. At one point we had 5 copies showing up each month. It took several months before we could convince them they only had to send 1.
Gregm
On Thu, 05 Feb 2004 18:20:09 -0500, Glenn Ashmore vaguely proposed a theory ......and in reply I say!:
Christ! I thought you had finished the boat!
**************************************************** sorry remove ns from my header address to reply via emailSpike....Spike? Hello?
I got spam'd by a fellow I never heard of offering to *sell* out-of-date McMaster's, does that count?
Glenn Ashmore wrote: M/C has finally recognized my little antique and Chinese
What's a Chinese shop?
It is equipped with all that oriental machinery you guys disparage. :-)
A local man was building his own yacht. Spent years making machinery... Metal rolls driven by a tractor pto to roll the hull plates, a contraption to spray hot zinc, etc... Finally all of that stuff was at a local metal yard. He figured out that he could travel to China, and have a boat yard build the boat complete, for less than the cost of the steel locally. A sad commentary on the state of world trade, but an exciting adventure for him....
Pete
Mike
He got a shipment of 20 to distribute as he saw fit amongst 3,000+ employees. I should have brought him donuts!
Pray tell where do you work that there are 3,000+ employees? I would feel as though I were nobody at best. But then again there might be other advantages that I am not aware of. We had 12 at times. 8 most of the time. Bob AZ
Joel
Donuts? I think he wants more than that,...
Perhaps a case of good beer is in order.
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