Oh who was that. I'd be very intereseted seeing as I am in the UK.  Any
other pic'ing in the Northwest?
Regards
Allan

----- Original Message -----
From: "Jeff King" <jeff@aerodata.net>
To: <PICLIST@MITVMA.MIT.EDU>
Sent: 06 January 2000 21:55
Subject: Re: 4000 12C508A's needed -- street price?


> leo van Loon wrote:
>
> > Microchip does not bargain for 4000 peaces. At 40000 you have a chance
>
> I'm not sure that is entirely true (in fact I know its not).
> As with anything, it depends who you talk to. One of the strangest things
I
> have noticed on this list is that you actually can buy small quantities of
PIC's
> (lets say 100-10000) CHEAPER outside of the U.S. then within the U.S.
>
> So I guess what I was looking for were names and personal contacts
(referrals)
> of the distributors that seemed the most willing to wheel and deal. Not
that I
> am unhappy with my current source, but with any large purchase its good to
> get a reality check.  Already, someone quoted me a price in the U.K that
is
> more then 0.25 USD less then the U.S. digikey price for the same amount.
> So clearly it pays to look around.
>
> Thank you
>
> Jeff
>