McMaster help in NY Area?

[Tristan Lall]

Make arrangements for your hotel to receive the package and hold it for you. (I've done this a few times before; it's always worked fine.)

(And at least in the past, I've been able to make Canadian orders from McMaster-Carr without an issue. Hopefully that makes me one of their valued long-established customers.)

[Joe Ross]

Originally Posted by Tristan Lall

(And at least in the past, I've been able to make Canadian orders from McMaster-Carr without an issue. Hopefully that makes me one of their valued long-established customers.)

Just don't try to get a catalog from them.

[artdutra04]

Originally Posted by Joe Ross

Just don't try to get a catalog from them.

I honestly think Dave had an isolated bad experience, as my experience with McMaster for personal, academic, team, and company projects has been nothing but exceptionally fast, reliable, and professional service.

If you want a McMaster catalog, just consistently order a lot of parts and they'll send you their catalog unsolicited after a few years; at least that's how 228 started receiving McMaster catalogs every year.

[Duncan Macdonald]

Thanks for the help everyone. It looks like I will get the pleasure of meeting jblay in person.

Originally Posted by Tristan Lall

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(And at least in the past, I've been able to make Canadian orders from McMaster-Carr without an issue. Hopefully that makes me one of their valued long-established customers.)

Circa 2009 I could too but I guess I'm classified as "nuisance low volume - infrequent" customer

Originally Posted by Joe Ross

Just don't try to get a catalog from them.

I'll keep this in mind if I ever represent a $16.5 billion dollar company. I'm mostly ticked that I got the form letter informing me of this a day after they gave me an Order confirmation. (I feel it wouldn't be hard to inform people when they enter a non US address that they need to be special)

[Dripto]

Send me the amounts & ID #s either here or to my email (DriptoDebroy(at)gmail(dot)com) and I'll see what I can do. Although I'm not sure if it would make it in time. It might come in late on friday. Also post the address you would want the package shipped to.

[thefro526]

For those of you that don't know, McMaster-Carr's Facility is only about 1.5 hours outside of NYC. Depending on when you get into the City for the Regional, you may be able to go directly to McMaster and pick your parts up through will call - if you've rented a car, or drove down or whatever.