Try www.dontronics.com.au He will ship internationally, his prices are fair
and they usually ship stuff within one business day. Secure online credit
card ordering too...

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From: pic microcontroller discussion list [mailto:PICLIST@MITVMA.MIT.EDU] On
Behalf Of Andre Thomas
Sent: Friday, 23 April 2004 1:17 AM
To: PICLIST@MITVMA.MIT.EDU
Subject: [AVR:] ATMEL - Prices, availability and such related issues


Hi,

After reading everything about the AVR/PIC discussion over the last few days
I finally decided it was time to try and get my dirty little hands on a
programmer and a processors of theirs.

Still not much luck.

I learnt that it is impossible to order 1 AVRISP, 1 ATMega16 & 1 ATMega32
from any of the distributors in South Africa without hastle... If not
impossible.

The first attempt, after waiting several hours for a quatation, indicated
that they can not provide me With the above mentioned order because its too
small... Apparently it costs them around $60 to process the order and they
will not make money on it and thus are not able to provide me with the items
requested.

The second attempt, albeit a telephonic order attempt, resulted in being
told that I have to wait up to a week for the programmer (which is not too
big a problem) AND that I have to order minimum quantities of 10 pieces of
the processors indicated before it will happen... Needless to say that I am
responsible for import costs from their international warehouse blah blah
blah.

My problem is this.

I am currently using Microchip and am willing to investigate the possibility
of using Atmel products because according to their datasheets and my needs
the atmel processors will be better suited for what I want to achieve, in
addition to that the development tools seem more attractive.

Do the people of Atmel know that their products are being represented in
this fashion? I don't want free samples... I want to buy the stuff I need to
make a descision but they want me to buy 1k pieces before I know which
processors are best suited for me? I think not.

Regards,
Andre Thomas

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