I was just informed by a colleague that there might not be anymore Microchip seminars; at least not here in Denver! He was told this by the local Rep. Of course they may not be a rep for long and since they do the local support for the seminar there may be no seminar. In fact, I went to the Microchip web site and looked for the date of the embedded seminar for Denver. Well there was a date, all right, but no location. The availability was marked as "N/A". This all sounds very bad. I guess this is one reason we DO need rep's. -- Rich James Newton wrote: > > I've always hated the rep network! They don't serve any function that I can > see other than getting in the way. As long as there are still FAE's I'd > rather order chips through distribution or factory direct. The real issue is > sample availability, what the chips cost and what the minimum order is. > Eliminating the middle-man and doing web order collection for big orders and > distributor orders for minimum quantity reduction seems like a good idea. > > I'd like to hear why I'm wrong on that.... > > --- > James Newton mailto:jamesnewton@geocities.com 1-619-652-0593 > http://techref.massmind.org NEW! FINALLY A REAL NAME! > Members can add private/public comments/pages ($0 TANSTAAFL web hosting) > > -----Original Message----- > From: pic microcontroller discussion list > [mailto:PICLIST@MITVMA.MIT.EDU]On Behalf Of William K. Borsum > Sent: Thursday, March 02, 2000 16:53 > To: PICLIST@MITVMA.MIT.EDU > Subject: No More Reps for MicroChip > > Hi All > Got a very interesting phone call from our microchip rep--apparently as of > March 1, all sales are being handled factory direct or through > distribution--no more rep network. > > Sounds like a potential disaster to me. > > Kelly > > William K. Borsum, P.E. -- OEM Dataloggers and Instrumentation Systems > & San Diego, California, USA