> Well, Dutch guys tend to be pretty straight shooters, and 
> that means living
> there requires one to develop a thick skin!  (I worked in 
> Utrecht for a while 

I work there (when I am not selling PIC stuff). I don't think it's a
remarkeable town as Dutch towns go, but not much wrong with it either.

> when
> behaving as a supplier one wants to concern himself with the 
> customer, not his personal needs.

My own needs (including how they evolve over the years) are the best
zero-order estimate I have of my clients needs. Emails, newsgroups,
mailinglists etc. deliver the higher-order coefficients :)

> Yeah, see.  When you are wearing your "builder" hat, you 
> probably don't have a lot of use for ZIF sockets.  

I use some, but mainly when I am programming PICs to sell.

> But obviously, when you are 
> wearing your "supplier" hat, you inventory what sells.

Of course. 

> > for breadboards I sell - I never ever use them. Wrong length, wrong
> > color, bent instead of straight, and too expensive.
> 
> How come guys who build stuff are always cheap?  (That 
> includes me).  I have
> this suspicion that a lot of people who buy this kind of stuff never
> actually use it.

To the contrary, lost of customers come back for more after the first
wire kit. For a shop it is a good article : it is consumed! Yes, I know
some people 'consume' (or should I say smoke?) PICs too.

Wouter van Ooijen

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