Arrow to buy NuHorizons

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ka7ehk
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Posted by ka7ehk: Mon. Sep 20, 2010 - 07:39 PM
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Just announced in EE Times:

http://www.eetimes.com/electroni...

For those purchasing through North American commercial channels, one less source for Atmel chips!

Interesting that both are "headquartered" in Melville, NY.

Jim

 

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Posted by ArnoldB: Mon. Sep 20, 2010 - 07:47 PM
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A match made in hell.

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Posted by MurdoMcLeod: Mon. Sep 20, 2010 - 11:56 PM
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I'm sorry to see this on our side of the pond as well.

NU bought DT (a well run national distributor here in the UK) a few years ago and they were doing a good job in this country - cheap training seminars for engineers, good customer support, quick responses, wide range of suppliers (Atmel, Xilinx, ST, etc) etc

I wonder how long Arrow will keep that level of service up...?

Murdo.

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Posted by alank2: Tue. Sep 21, 2010 - 12:49 AM
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Hi,

Arrow can have some decent low qty pricing on stuff.

They will hose you on the unknowns however. Shipping becomes shipping + packing + packing tape + depreciation on the scissors to cut the packing tape + storage fee for 3 hours until UPS or USPS picks it up + whatever other fee they can think of.

Needless to say I no longer place an order without talking to them on the phone to ask them what the total will be...

Thanks,

Alan

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Posted by valusoft: Tue. Sep 21, 2010 - 01:35 AM
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MurdoMcLeod wrote:

I wonder how long Arrow will keep that level of service up...?

Murdo.

"Arrow" and "service" in the same sentence without "NOT" ... that's a first :lol:

Ross McKenzie ValuSoft Melbourne Australia

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Posted by stevech: Tue. Sep 21, 2010 - 02:46 AM
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My 3 or so attempts to work with Arrow Electronics resulted in total frustration and a dash in the opposite direction.

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Posted by ArnoldB: Tue. Sep 21, 2010 - 05:28 AM
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alank2 wrote:
Shipping becomes shipping + packing + packing tape + depreciation on the scissors to cut the packing tape + storage fee for 3 hours until UPS or USPS picks it up + whatever other fee they can think of.
My favorite is the "energy fee" of these robber barons.

United States and Canada: $0.99 energy surcharge
The rest of the world: $10.22

And that's not shipping costs. Shipping costs are separate.

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Posted by TrainzStoffe: Tue. Sep 21, 2010 - 07:33 AM
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Well, the electrons and photons that describe your order do have to travel very far to get to the states. I bet they are unionized too by now. :)

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