On Thursday, Jan 2, 2003, at 16:49 Europe/London, the pickle wrote: > At 08:02 +0000 on 02/01/03, Mark Benson wrote: > >> only a link to www.battery.co.uk in the FAQ. There are no part numbers >> for any UK I companies listed. > > No, but there are manufacturer part numbers listed, and about EIGHT of > them, > and if a battery place can't find an equivalent based on one of those, > they > don't deserve your business.
That's all well and good, and I agree, but a lot of businesses use the suppliers I listed the order numbers for meaning people could potentially save a lot of money (mostly VAT) buying them through work. CPC especially, and their parent company, Farnell or their major competitor Radios Spares (or RS Components as the prefer to be known) are used by practically anywhere that buys electronics kit on a small to medium scale. So ya see I'm not daft. It is much easier to walk into Maplin and say I want a QE49D than walk in with a PRAM battery and say 'have you got another one of these'. It's not even usually enough to have a manufacturers part number. A quirk of business is that the less awkward the customer is the better they get treated, and it works exponentially. I did the 'have you got another one of these' trick in Maplin in Southampton once, as pickle well knows, and was given the wrong one by an particularly dumb member of staff. I took it back and was rapidly given the correct one by the manager however. People like easy customers. So if you ring a company, or walk in the door, and say I need a 'so and so' it's part number 'xyz123' then you get treated a lot better. If you KEEP going in and doing the same you get a really good reputation and sterling service :) -- Mark Benson AIM - SilValleyPirate Visit FlatPackMacs online: <http://fpm.gotdns.com> Visit my Homepage: <http://homepage.mac.com/markbenson> Vintage Macs List Nanny "Never send a human to do a machine's job." -The Matrix -- Vintage Macs is sponsored by <http://lowendmac.com/> and... Small Dog Electronics http://www.smalldog.com | Enter To Win A | -- Canon PowerShot Digital Cameras start at $299 | Free iBook! | Support Low End Mac <http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html> Vintage Macs list info: <http://lowendmac.com/lists/vintagemacs.shtml> The FAQ: <http://macfaq.org/> --> AOL users, remove "mailto:"; Send list messages to: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To unsubscribe, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For digest mode, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subscription questions: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Archive: <http://www.mail-archive.com/vintage.macs%40mail.maclaunch.com/> Using a Mac? Free email & more at Applelinks! http://www.applelinks.com
