{"id":206,"date":"2009-10-02T11:58:26","date_gmt":"2009-10-02T10:58:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.weeklywhinge.com\/?p=206"},"modified":"2010-11-24T13:40:25","modified_gmt":"2010-11-24T13:40:25","slug":"no-order-too-small","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.weeklywhinge.com\/?p=206","title":{"rendered":"no order too small&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve used the components supplier <a href=\"http:\/\/uk.farnell.com\/\">farnell<\/a> before and found them to be excellent. Up until recently I&#8217;ve been able to get around their minimum order value for free delivery because work has an account with them; however work has changed their policy so I can&#8217;t order stuff through them any more (grrr).<\/p>\n<p>So anyway, I needed to repair the PSU on a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.toppy.org.uk\/\">Topfield<\/a> I got off ebay and the 6 <a href=\"https:\/\/uk.farnell.com\/jsp\/search\/productdetail.jsp?SKU=1219463\">capacitors I need<\/a> came to \u00c2\u00a32.69 inc VAT; I figured I&#8217;d have to bite the bullet and pay a fiver or so for delivery (although I wasn&#8217;t too happy about it). Imagine my surprise, therefore, when the checkout came out at &#8220;free same-day-dispatch&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>It turns out that farnell abolished the minimum order requirement for website cash orders at the beginning of the year. So hurrah for them!<\/p>\n<p>Edit: they arrived next-day too. Brilliant!<\/p>\n<p>Reedit: no-minimum-order policy has now been <a href=\"http:\/\/forum.toppy.org.uk\/forum\/viewtopic.php?p=224030#224030\">reversed<\/a>. Booooo!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve used the components supplier farnell before and found them to be excellent. Up until recently I&#8217;ve been able to get around their minimum order value for free delivery because work has an account with them; however work has changed their policy so I can&#8217;t order stuff through them any more (grrr). So anyway, I [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[62],"class_list":["post-206","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tech","tag-online-ordering"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.weeklywhinge.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/206","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.weeklywhinge.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.weeklywhinge.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.weeklywhinge.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.weeklywhinge.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=206"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/www.weeklywhinge.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/206\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":210,"href":"https:\/\/www.weeklywhinge.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/206\/revisions\/210"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.weeklywhinge.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=206"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.weeklywhinge.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=206"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.weeklywhinge.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=206"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}