Fmilburn 446 Posted September 21, 2016 Share Posted September 21, 2016 Arrow Electronics has free shipping on all orders in the US and orders over $50 for overseas during the month of September. https://www.arrow.com/ Also, they are advertising 20% off for students and professors with valid .edu email addresses. I'm not eligible so don't know how that works. https://www.arrow.com/en/campaigns/classroom-components bluehash 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
spirilis 1,265 Posted September 30, 2016 Share Posted September 30, 2016 I had a somewhat lousy experience with Arrow during the RPi3 promo; while I ended up getting all my goods (although the Pi T-Cobbler adapter I bought evidently was the wrong kind, which wasn't obvious on their site at the time), they shipped it in 4 separate shipments that appeared to come from the same location, thus inflating the shipping costs. I went along with it anyhow (as the total shipping cost at $16 was still less than a Pi3) thinking they just source from lots of locations but that was not the case. For kicks, I decided to try the free shipping today (since it's the last day for it). Got 50 of the Fox FX135A-327 (used with my CC1310 boards, seems like a nice & super compact XTAL). I used paypal for payment, and Paypal sent me their confirmation email that I was charged, but the Arrow website never produced an Order confirmation page (had a progress bar animation going for 10 minutes before I closed the tab) and I see no evidence of my order in the "Order history" page. I do have a marketing contact from Arrow who followed up with me on my previous order so I sent her the details and asked her to look into it. Thankfully Paypal includes the vendor's Invoice ID so she will have a reference# to look up. I recall back in August when I ordered a bunch of parts, I could never see the invoice or manifest on their website; when I tried the online chat support to ask why this was so, they seemed to dismiss it rather quickly as a "known issue". Sounds like a bunch of amateurs running the site's backend who don't have their s**t together IMO. bluehash 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
spirilis 1,265 Posted September 30, 2016 Share Posted September 30, 2016 Well that was nice, someone called me back and gave me a 10% off code for the inconvenience and his email in case I have any more issues. So at least they're good about turning around the customer service communication. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
spirilis 1,265 Posted October 14, 2016 Share Posted October 14, 2016 Arrow's doing free shipping for the month of October, no code required. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
spirilis 1,265 Posted December 2, 2016 Share Posted December 2, 2016 Arrow's still doing free shipping now, all orders USA and $50+ International. Bought a few more components (10x HDC1080, 10x TPS61221 for some CC1310 sensor nodes) to stock the bins. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
spirilis 1,265 Posted January 12, 2017 Share Posted January 12, 2017 Aand. .. Arrow's still doing free shipping, no code needed. $50 minimum for international orders. I'm guessing they're pushing hard to gain a presence in the small-order online commerce arena, but that's good for us! (for now, while shipping is free ) For the most part their online ordering process has improved since last August when I found much to gripe about, and they gave me a contact who manages the web development and I've written him once or twice to report issues I've seen. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Fmilburn 446 Posted January 12, 2017 Author Share Posted January 12, 2017 That's good... I have made a couple of orders from them in the last few months. I don't see how they can keep doing this as they package everthing really well and I made one small order where the packaging and shipping had to cost as much as the rest of the order. I even won a Raspberry Pi in one of their give aways. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
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