Jan-Erik,

I don't understand why all big producers don't follow politics of DELL....
Delivering just in time and without problems and without any additional
costs... You can't imagine how difficult is to obtain some newer chips ev=
en
from Microchip here in Czech republic regulary. We are small firm and we
don't need more than a couple of thousands PICs a year.

Igor


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Subject: [PIC]: buy.microchip.com, any thoughts ?


Hi.
I just saw that Microchip has created an online
purchase web page. (buy.microchip.com). Right now
only servering US customers, but other countries
are planed, they say.

Anyway, it seems to be quite competitive prices. The
single unit price of a 12F675-I/P ($1.81 USD) is lower
then the 100 unit price (in Sweden) from Farnell. Since
I'm a non-US, so I could not get any p&p value...

I also checked with Digikey, and thers single unit price
was a little bit higher then MC, but the 100 unit
prices was exactly the same (for the two chips I
checked, 18F252-I/SP and 12F675-I/P).

Anyone else seen this service ? Any thoughts about it ?

Doesn't the distributors normaly gets a bit "upset" when
a producer decides to bypass them and sell directly
to the customers ?

Jan-Erik.

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