McMaster-Carr Catalog (2025 Update)

Having read bits and pieces of this thread I decided to give them a call today. They seemed eager to send one right out, until I failed to give them a company name and indicated it was for a hobbyist. The young lady (Atlanta Office) then directed me to the web site where there is a full catalog online.

Perhaps if you'd give them a business name and have it delivered to you at the business address they'd get one to you. I dare say most of us could do that, or arrange to have one sent to use in care of a friend's business.

Just another over priced $0.02.

Al

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Russ Wiz> Their catalogs don't really show brand names of anything. I personally spend

Thank you kindly!

Ref> > Ccan someone please tell me who:

My point was that, for me, it's not always convenient to use the website. It depends on what I'm looking for. If I need a TiN-coated HSS

And then there are all the items I never knew I needed (until I saw them in the catalog), or the items that I knew I needed but didn't know what they were called (online won't help me there!). These situations account for at least 1/3 of what I buy.

There is easily the potential that I would do over $1000 in business with them, since their prices seem to be generally lower than MSC's. Should I send them printouts of my MSC purchase orders? I spent $4,288 at MSC in 2003 and $18 at McMaster. If McMasters catalog is like MSC's, it can't cost them more than $100 each to publish.

-Adam

i was in this thread earlier, and my business address and home address are the same. no problem getting catalogues, but only after i made an initial order. a great co., imho, exempellary combination of old and "new". --Loren

that may be the key, what the previous poster said, ordering online. that is what i did, not the catalog, but parts (small first order) gave me a couple years of catalogues. --LOren

Good idea, but mark those items you didn't PLAN to buy, but found while browsing the MSC catalog.

I sent them a link to an ebay auction for catalog #110. It was up to $45 at the time, and finally sold for $75.00

The seller was obviously one of their "preferred" customers, who only used the catalog to make a profit at their expense.=20 Maybe this will turn some heads there. =20 I suggested, once again, thhat the order 1000 extra catalogs from the printers and put them up for sale on the web site at $20 each. I just hope they don't decide to sell them on eBay inetead :-)

(I didn't get the usual form letter in response this time.)

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I sent them another batch of completed auctions. One interesting item. The same person is buying most of the #110 catalogs.. What for, I wonder?

They'd have to be nuts to ignore the money they could make just selling the catalogs.

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maybe he is a shill? what is the cost of selling on ebay, anyone? is it negotiable, does it vary on the item type? if someone can sell

go to e-bay.com and there's catalogs galore through mcmaster carr