At 07:21 01/02/99 -0500, Bob Drzyzgula wrote:
>Myself, like Ben, I generally go for the vendor who has
>their prices online, or at least one who can give me
>a quick, straight answer over the phone with a minimum
>of fuss.

i don't like prices over the phone at all, because often i have some choice
of technically viable options (after all, there are quite a couple of, say,
inductor mf out there, and any inductors which fit my needs might get into
the design), and i don't want to spend the time to call them all up. so i
go out and see and take the ones for which i can get an overview of the
prices of their different product lines. and i often work after hours...
(which is even easier being on the west coast)

ge