Conrad prices - Page 1
Forum section: electronics / general

author: jpb
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: April 12, 2013, 08:46:42 pm
content: Conrad seems to have suddenly drastically increased their prices, at least on the things on my wish list.First, I found that the price of the LeCroy Logic Studio rose from £954 to £1356, now the set of titanium tweezers which were £54 are now £70.Their policy now seems to charge in £ the price in Euros - I thought the exchange rate was 1.1713 !I realise that a sample of two is not statistically significant - but the sudden jumps are a bit perturbing.

author: Unknown
author_rank: Unknown
timestamp: April 12, 2013, 09:21:51 pm
content: I see a lot of that policy for US$ items, or equipments and books... the UK suppliers just slap-on a direct value by exchange of $ for £ GBP.

author: Galenbo
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: April 13, 2013, 07:05:42 pm
content: Unfortunately, the intellinet NFD-130IRV network camera is at once a lot more expensive also.

author: casper.bang
author_rank: Frequent Contributor
timestamp: April 13, 2013, 07:18:33 pm
content: Yeah it sucks. Conrad just opened a local/national store in my country, and even though I've been ordering parts for 15+ years from the parent EU site in Germany, they now direct me to the local/national store which is more expensive and which only has a subset of the parts of the parent EU site. Bummer.

author: M. András
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: April 13, 2013, 07:24:14 pm
content: they do this for years here, usd=eur and than eur gets converted to huf and they slap on that vat and their extra profit on top of the greedy currency exchange rate

author: peter.mitchell
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: April 13, 2013, 07:50:03 pm
content: Here they do a proper currency conversion, then double it.

author: SeanB
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: April 13, 2013, 07:57:20 pm
content: Here it is the US prices with a decimal right shift of the decimal place, then a binary multiply by either 1 or 2 bits.

author: madires
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: April 13, 2013, 08:35:25 pm
content: Conrad is expensive anyway, mostly by 20-30%, sometimes even much more. The only positive thing about them is that they offer some special stuff hard to get somewhere else. Therefore I only buy from Conrad if I'm forced to. And it seems that they don't value loyal customers, made some bad experience some while ago.

author: jpb
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: April 13, 2013, 09:47:13 pm
content: Quote from: madires on April 13, 2013, 08:35:25 pmIn the UK the choice of suppliers is rather limited, i.e. RS, Farnell, Rapid online, Maplins and Conrad. Maplins is very limited. A month or two back Conrad seemed generally cheaper than the others, now for most items it is at least as expensive as Farnell and RS which are pretty pricey.As an example I recently purchased the Ersa i-CON Nano. I bought it from the main importer Blundell who charged about £185 for it. Conrad charge £216, Farnell charge £210 and RS £225.

author: madires
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: April 14, 2013, 11:05:19 am
content: Quote from: jpb on April 13, 2013, 09:47:13 pmHave you tried Reichelt (www.reichelt.de) or TME (www.tme.eu)?QuoteLet's see, €227.50 (about £194) at Reichelt and €249.90 (about £213) at Conrad Germany. Next time I should order Ersa stuff from Blundell too :-)

author: jpb
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: April 14, 2013, 11:52:25 am
content: Quote from: madires on April 14, 2013, 11:05:19 amNo I haven't used them, though I may have come across their sites when searching.Thanks, it is useful to have more potential suppliers.