Tamas,

On Mon, 4 Sep 2006 16:33:43 +0100, Tamas Rudnai wrote:

> Hi,
> =

> Have anybody has an experience of ordering something from Microchip
> directly? I've selected some chips because they show me a very good price,
> then when I gave all of my details, and just before the confirmation butt=
on
> they put an extra fee onto the bill saying that is the postage+packaging =
and
> taxation fee. The whole price practically doubled! I canceled it strait a=
way
> as it might be better to purchase in a larger quantity? Or it does not
> matter, the price will be doubled anyway?

If it's a small order, their P&P charges are relatively huge - I think it's=
 a fixed charge regardless of order size (not sure about the "taxation fee"=
 - I =

don't remember that one!)

I seem to remember that the last time I ordered the total charge was UK=A31=
2, so if you're only buying a few chips it is a lot, but if you're buying a=
n =

ICD2 and a handful of adaptors, the shipping charge isn't a large proportio=
n.

If you're just buying chips you may want to consider Wouter (http://www.vot=
i.nl/e_index.html) or Glitchbuster (http://www.glitchbuster.com/) - both =

have much more reasonable shipping charges than Microchip!

Cheers,


Howard Winter
St.Albans, England



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