Alexandre has right, I think.

The PIC distributors outside USA are excesively covetous.

His behaviour puts basic tools very far from for hobbyst and students.

Here in Uruguay, a PicStart costs US dollars 350 plus taxes.
Final price is U$S 440. It is the pay of one month for
an average worker.

The new ICD tool is unavailable.

In South America, an intermediator named IBARS (based in USA) sells PICs
and relatives to local resellers. This marketing scheme increased
prices (in USA, Microchips sells directly).

The only solution for working people and beginners (like me and others) is to
build homebrew tools.

Cheers! :)
          Alejandro.

At 11:46 11/05/01 -0300, you wrote:
>Alexandre Domingos F. Souza wrote:
>>         If you know the price of a PicStart+ here, you would change your
>oppinion :o) It costs around $500 (yep, five hundred dollars) and it's
>EXPENSIVE to me. But don't worry, there is a picstart on the way :o)
>
>I think there is a mistake. The local distributor sells PS+ for $220 US for
>Brazil.
>AutComp
>Phone: (+11) 6915-7443
>
>Marcelo Y.
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