>  (I'm not saying that I'll hold a company to an EXACT price they show
>on the web, but if you might want to buy something I made, wouldn't it
>make a big difference to you whether a $20 part was priced at $19.95, or
>at $57.95, on December 1st of this year?  A ballpark number is
>beautiful, so long as it's labelled as such.  You'd know to deal with
>the $19.95 ballpark company, unless you had a *good* reason to do
>otherwise, all other things being equal.  And maybe the prices would've
>changed to $21.50 and $43.95, by the 20th - No biggie <G>)

Yea Mark. One of my pet peeves also. Very often you just want to calculate
whether a particular design direction is worth following, and it mostly
depends on whether the price of a certain part is 50 cents or 5 dollars. If
the mfr is unwilling to give straight answers about pricing, forget it.
Being cozy with pricing info just implies they'll gouge you as deep as they
think they can get away with.

Reg Neale