Thanks, yes, I know Voti's site, that's a quite a good one, and will check
out the other one as well.

Tamas


On 04/09/06, Howard Winter <HDRW@h2org.demon.co.uk> wrote:
>
> 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
> button
> > 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
> away
> > 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=A312, so if you're only buying a few chips it is a lot, but if you're
> buying an
> ICD2 and a handful of adaptors, the shipping charge isn't a large
> proportion.
>
> If you're just buying chips you may want to consider Wouter (
> http://www.voti.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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