[sdiy] Good Eurozone component sources

[Neil Johnson]

Hi Tom,

Have you synced up with the local hackerspace community?

Neil

On 20/02/2014, Tom Wiltshire <tom at electricdruid.net> wrote:
> Thanks for the ideas. I hadn't though of Mouser, so that's worth looking
> into.
>
> Here's what I know and what I've tried so far:
>
> I tried Digikey, which works, but the Portuguese are hot on customs charges
> (trying to pay off their government debt!) so it's not terribly cost
> effective.
>
> Farnell have given up in Portugal, although they haven't taken their website
> down. You can even order, and get a acknowledgement, but if you do, a couple
> of days later, you get an email cancelling the order and referring you to
> their "local distributor", who doesn't have any sort of online ordering
> facility at all.
>
> RS have an office in Spain which deals with Spanish and Portuguese orders.
> Unfortunately their website is unable to deal with the different rates of
> VAT between the two countries and any order to RS subsequently involves
> several phone calls to them in Spain to pay the required VAT. This wouldn't
> be so bad, except that they have to delete the order you made, and re-enter
> it all with the correct rate of VAT. In short, it's a faff.
>
> Maybe I'll have to try some Portuguese stomp box forums or something.
> Someone here must build something!
>
> T.
>
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