Help: Looking for IBM timing belt replacement. - test-drb@ccmp.vtda.org

24 Dec 2004

Hi
 Grainger claims to be a whole saler. They like to
always deal with companies. Even though not incorporated,
they have no problem selling to our small water system
company ( 7 homes ) but won't sell to me as an individual.
If it is taxable, they don't need a tax number. I'd
suspect that if you gave them most any fictitious name
they would sell to you without question, even in small
amounts.
Dwight

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 From: "Tom Jennings" &lt;tomj(a)wps.com&gt;

On Thu, 23 Dec 2004, Joe R. wrote:

     I doubt McMaster Carr will be of any help. You
have to have an account
 with them AND a tax number before they'll sell to you. And that's even if
 you walk into one of their locations. I doubt they'd even talk to you if
 they knew that you're in Europe.   
Grainger is like that too, never could figure out what their
problem is.

MSC Direct doesn't have that problem. I buy for work and
personally.  I do simple $30 orders, online, delivered
to home. YOu can call and talk to (somtimes) knowledgable
people. Overall prices are OK, not great; but when you need
only one item or a small quantity (I just bought a bunch of
odd plastics from them) it doesn't matter.

Ask for a free catalog; is 4" thick, thousands of pages, hard
cover! Free!

www.mscdirect.com