OneCall: Farnell/CPC higher education discount

I've been doing a lot of ordering at work, and I've noticed a couple of useful things:

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is a combination of the Farnell and CPC catalogues. That means if you want to check the ranges of something at both you can do it on one website.

OneCall is Farnell/CPC with the negotiated Higher Education discount (19% on most things, excluding things like test equipment), though it doesn't show the reduction until you're logged in with an institution-linked account. What's interesting is that staff and students of appropriate HE institutions can also get the discount for personal purchases (over 20 pounds value, ordered online, free postage). You just ring them up and give them an academic email address and they register you. First order must go to your home address, then they ship elsewhere.

So if you have any university connections or know someone who does, you can get substantial discounts...

Theo

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Theo Markettos
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and rapidonline is way cheaper than farnell.

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NT

I have and I will...

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Bob Eager

But they don't stock as much....I do use them though.

Digikey is great if you don't mind £50 or so min order.

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Bob Eager

That's nice, and not before time.

I use my CPC account a fair bit, but haven't done serious component- level electronics for a few years. Now I'm back into it, I find that Farnell can't register me as a new account because I "already exist" in their database, but I can't log into it as it's a CPC account not a Farnell account (?!). In the meantime, I went to RS to spend money.

Must be nice to have "too many" customers like this.

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Andy Dingley

Ditto - great tip there - thanks!

I noticed the not inconsiderable discount doing a university order for a load of network cables today.

I'm off to regsiter now...

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Tim Watts

Their systems are puzzling. Rang up OneCall, who are really Farnell in Leeds, at 18.30 tonight. They couldn't extract details from my CPC account, because that's CPC in Preston and they'd closed by then. When I then went to the OneCall website to register it wouldn't let me because my chosen username already existed. I just made up a new username and it let me register (think it needs human confirmation to show me the discount prices). Though I was using a different address as well - have you tried that?

Theo

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Theo Markettos

I had a farnell account, but didn't use it for a few years

They still have me on the database, but can't reactivate it without me applying for a new account. They wouldn't accept a week old CPC invoice as proof of who we are

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and farnell are obviously not that fussed about retaining customers

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geoff

That's nice, and not before time.

I use my CPC account a fair bit, but haven't done serious component- level electronics for a few years. Now I'm back into it, I find that Farnell can't register me as a new account because I "already exist" in their database, but I can't log into it as it's a CPC account not a Farnell account (?!). In the meantime, I went to RS to spend money.

RS????????????? They pay you far too much :) Robbing barstewards.

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brass monkey

When I worked for Sun, we were doing about 1 CPC order a week. This was all personal suff, not related to work. CPC gave us a special account which attracted a discount (10% I think, not as much as 20%). Discount didn't apply to special offers. Delivery had to be to one of Sun's offices.

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Andrew Gabriel

I do order from them occasionally, high power LEDs mainly. I would order from them much more often if they didn't keep losing the contents of my shopping basket. My method with CPC is that I add things as I run out or as they occur to me, and they might sit in the basket for weeks before the order is placed. I started doing this with Rapid, but found that very often, the whole basket had been lost when I logged in again. This has lost them the business.

I have used them when I've needed some specialist items, such as motorised potentiometers.

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Andrew Gabriel

I don't think you ever see discount prices. It's all adjusted on the account after the event (at least, that's how it worked with us).

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Andrew Gabriel

Can I have a 'daily mail' style rant [1] about students complaining their funds (minus drink rations) don't go far, when the huge discounts [2] they and businesses normally get are not available to retail consumers that don't have kids, don't work in company, don't have professional membership... yada yada....

[1] - i.e. issue doesn't directly affect me, but I feel I should offended enough to wobble on this 'ere soap box, for the good of ?? [2] -
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Adrian C

I find CPC to be the place to go for general server installations. Got the patch leads, power stuff, tie wraps, velcro ties and labels.

They could do with having a better range of 19" fitments though. Only one type of cable management bar and it's the shitty type I hate...

Farnell for "proper" electronics.

Rapid for proper electronics and also educational toys - they have a brilliant selection of magnets, kiddy friendly electronics and stuff :)

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Tim Watts

Sign up for an OU course, get an NUS card, qualify for all the discounts.

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funkyoldcortina

We can see them. I cannot see them as I don't have access to our procument system, but our secretary can check them via the system, that keys straight into Onecall.

I generally form an order on the public CPC site, guess a 20% discount for boss-head-nodding reasons, then just pass the CSV dump of my basket (that's a nice feature BTW) to her and it's nice and clean opened as an Excel sheet for her to key the code and quanties in.

Plus I know it's all instock from the public site...

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Tim Watts

A thought:

a. I'd like 19% discount from Farnell/CPC; b. I don't have an .ac.uk email address or anyone close enough with one; c. universities are allegedly short of money are looking to increases revenues from trading activities and are also encouraged to "outreach"; d. I'd be willing to pay a modest annual subscription for a self-instructed, non-examined, distance learning course (eg "the history of punched paper tape as a means of expanding student vocabularies") which gave access to such an email address and a very basic email service (eg limited bandwidth, small mailbox; or even just Webmail).

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Robin

Last time I looked the OU fees were typically £195 for just a first step course. I don't spend that much with CPC

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Robin

Rapid's website is a prime example of a site that makes a simple task take forever. Its truly stupid.

NT

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NT

univ.cx and univ.ae are both unregistered.

add a plausible sub-domain and say you're on sabbatical in the UK

Owain

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Owain

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