Andrew Kieran wrote :

> Hi list. 
> 
> If you are in need of some PIC16F877-20/P chips, check out this
> item on e-Bay.

OK, lets see...

They don't accept PayPal. It would cost me an additional aprox
12 USD just in local bank fees to "buy" a Money Order in USD.
They do accept a personal check though, but it must have been
over 10 years ago since we stopped using the old checks over here.

A few weeks ago I bought from someone in the US, and asked
for the bank name and account so I could just transfer the money
(done directly from my internet banking services). But they would
not let me have their bank information. Here we put in directly on
your web sites. And all I wanted was to save *them* some PayPal
fees ! THe sum was about $150, it was this item :
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=6119049740
and it was actualy my wife's who wanted it... :-) :-)

> If I had any connection to the seller, I'd use
> the [AD]: tag, but I don't.  I did however buy a few of these
> chips for around $3.00 each, shipping included!  (They sold me
> more chips at the auction price without additional S & H
> charges.)

Well, they asks $6.00 USD to ship just 4 chips within the
"48 contiguous states". I could ship 4 chips for $4.00 world wide.
And you have to ask to get the intl' shipping cost which probably is
hogher them $6.00. And they charge $5.00 *on top* of the actual
shipping cost for intl' shipping...

IMHO, not *that* good deal...
Bot OTOH, they have 4.421 (!) other items currently listed
on eBay :-) :-)

Regards,
Jan-Erik.

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