Comments on: Vendor Gifts as Proxy for Economic Recovery http://blogs.scienceforums.net/swansont/archives/3207 Physics, tech and humor. Because science and learning are cool, and life's too short not to laugh. Sat, 20 Mar 2010 16:57:29 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 hourly 1 By: swansont http://blogs.scienceforums.net/swansont/archives/3207/comment-page-1#comment-18747 swansont Sun, 02 Aug 2009 13:51:00 +0000 http://blogs.scienceforums.net/swansont/?p=3207#comment-18747 We've been dropping some serious coin with them, buying for our attempts to learn how to build a femtosecond comb. That might help. We even got snacks with a backorder, which didn't used to happen — it was one box per order, no matter how many shipments into which it was broken. I'd hate to think the lack of shipments to Europe is because the snacks aren't ROHS compliant. We’ve been dropping some serious coin with them, buying for our attempts to learn how to build a femtosecond comb. That might help. We even got snacks with a backorder, which didn’t used to happen — it was one box per order, no matter how many shipments into which it was broken.

I’d hate to think the lack of shipments to Europe is because the snacks aren’t ROHS compliant.

]]> By: Anonymous Coward2 http://blogs.scienceforums.net/swansont/archives/3207/comment-page-1#comment-18717 Anonymous Coward2 Fri, 31 Jul 2009 15:50:48 +0000 http://blogs.scienceforums.net/swansont/?p=3207#comment-18717 Same thing over here(Europe). No love from Thorlabs in the past 6 months or so, before that the red boxes came with every shipment. "Hungry" Same thing over here(Europe). No love from Thorlabs in the past 6 months or so, before that the red boxes came with every shipment.

“Hungry”

]]> By: Anonymous Coward http://blogs.scienceforums.net/swansont/archives/3207/comment-page-1#comment-18699 Anonymous Coward Thu, 30 Jul 2009 00:24:53 +0000 http://blogs.scienceforums.net/swansont/?p=3207#comment-18699 What's your secret for getting in the good graces of Thorlab's packing elves? I recently toured a lab (which, admittedly, has a much larger optics budget than mine) and they had a few hundred-or-so lab snacks boxes stacked against a wall. I'm lucky to see one every year or so. P.S. Isn't there some sort of governmental paperwork you should be filling out every time you down a vendor-supplied red vine? What’s your secret for getting in the good graces of Thorlab’s packing elves?

I recently toured a lab (which, admittedly, has a much larger optics budget than mine) and they had a few hundred-or-so lab snacks boxes stacked against a wall. I’m lucky to see one every year or so.

P.S. Isn’t there some sort of governmental paperwork you should be filling out every time you down a vendor-supplied red vine?

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