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General Category => The Knowledge => Ctrl-Alt-Del => Topic started by: Ham on 25 July, 2018, 06:03:26 am

Title: Who's your bits broker?
Post by: Ham on 25 July, 2018, 06:03:26 am

I don't buy much IT stuff these days, when I do, it tends to be through Amazon or Scan for serious stuff, and eBay for throwaway commodity cables etc. As I appear to be in the market for a few drive like things at the very minimum, I was wondering who I might be missing.

Title: Re: Who's your bits broker?
Post by: Jaded on 25 July, 2018, 06:42:14 am

There are a number of parts establishments I use, but they do come and go. I tend to choose a component then google for suppliers, checking them for longevity and so on. Amazon are quite last on my list as a principle.

Title: Re: Who's your bits broker?
Post by: Mr Larrington on 25 July, 2018, 08:30:59 am

Ebuyer?

Title: Re: Who's your bits broker?
Post by: Kim on 25 July, 2018, 12:05:20 pm

Ebuyer, mainly out of habit.  Sometimes Scan.  Sometimes whoever actually has whatever it is I'm looking for in stock.

Title: Re: Who's your bits broker?
Post by: tiermat on 25 July, 2018, 12:15:27 pm

Ebuyer, if I have to (sometimes they can't be beaten on price or are the only supplier to have stock), but would much rather use CCL.

Title: Re: Who's your bits broker?
Post by: fuaran on 26 July, 2018, 03:36:56 pm

Box.co.uk. Probably not as big a range as Ebuyer etc, but sometimes cheaper and faster delivery.

Title: Re: Who's your bits broker?
Post by: McWheels on 26 July, 2018, 11:43:26 pm

cpc.farnell.com

Based out of Preston. Really good for PCB components too.

Title: Re: Who's your bits broker?
Post by: Ham on 27 July, 2018, 07:18:42 am

Some interesting additional names there, thanks. I ended up ordering through scan, as cheap as anywhere and next day delivery (eBuyer was quoting 5 days for a stock item )

As it goes, one of the items was DOA, and it was on the returns email that I noticed:

Quote

By Appointment To
Her Majesty The Queen
High Performance Personal Computers & IT Hardware
Scan Computers International Ltd
Bolton

What IS Maj getting up to???

Title: Re: Who's your bits broker?
Post by: Kim on 27 July, 2018, 02:35:33 pm

Quote from: Ham on 27 July, 2018, 07:18:42 am

Some interesting additional names there, thanks. I ended up ordering through scan, as cheap as anywhere and next day delivery (eBuyer was quoting 5 days for a stock item )

As it goes, one of the items was DOA, and it was on the returns email that I noticed:

Quote

By Appointment To
Her Majesty The Queen
High Performance Personal Computers & IT Hardware
Scan Computers International Ltd
Bolton

What IS Maj getting up to???

She's setting up the British Library Special Operations Task Force, to re-establish the Empire after the world burns.  High performance computing is just the tip of that iceberg - you should see the SEEKRIT BUNKER they've built to stockpile tea.

Title: Re: Who's your bits broker?
Post by: Morat on 02 August, 2018, 06:55:03 pm

and Corgi* food...



*Other breeds may well be available but don't bother bringing them to _our_ Palace

Title: Re: Who's your bits broker?
Post by: Canardly on 04 August, 2018, 01:30:14 pm

Memory  and SDD direct  from Crucial.

Title: Re: Who's your bits broker?
Post by: Valiant on 15 August, 2018, 01:11:38 pm

The ones I use most is

Ebuyer
Scan
CPC
Misco
Amazon

Title: Re: Who's your bits broker?
Post by: Adam on 15 August, 2018, 04:39:15 pm

Misco went bust last year unfortunately.  I used to use them a lot.

Title: Re: Who's your bits broker?
Post by: mrcharly-YHT on 16 August, 2018, 12:41:03 pm

CCL are quite good, although most of my experience with them has been for whole computers.