On 27 Nov 2014 13:56, "Jim Lux" <jim...@earthlink.net> wrote: > > Time to stock up on those transformers, mixers, amplifiers<grin> > > "Throughout the month of December, all online orders of any quantity of any Mini-Circuits catalog model from our web store on minicircuits.com will receive a 10% *discount! > "
I thought I would place my order online to get the discount, whereas I normally do by phone. I decided to order from the USA rather than the UK. MiniCircuits charged me $102 to ship twelve SMA terminations and ten N terminations by UPS. That is their "shipping & handling change". I could send the same bits from the UK to the USA for less than 50% of that and I don't have a UPS account. A UPS account holder would get a better rate. I can get free shipping in the UK if I spend more than some relatively small amount, but I pay a lot more for the parts. Minicircuits use an exchange rate of close to 1 USD = 1 GBP. I seem to be between a rock and a hard place - either pay a ridiculous exchange rate, or pay a ridiculous shipping & handling cost. Dave, G8WRB. _______________________________________________ time-nuts mailing list -- time-nuts@febo.com To unsubscribe, go to https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts and follow the instructions there.