On Sep 4, 2006, at 9:07 AM, Tamas Rudnai wrote:

> I would expect to see all the fees in my Cart before I decide
> to do the purchase (see Voti's website :-)

Alas, that isn't as common as it ought to be.  In the consumer
retail market, we've become sensitive to 'excessive  and/or
unexpected shipping and handling fees', and some vendors have
become very up-front about what they're going to charge.

"professional" distributers are less candid; your order is supposed
to be big enough that even relatively large charges aren't relevant.
I think it was a recent order I placed at Mouser (ramtron development
board; neat stuff) where even the "confirmation email" after the
order was complete had "TBD" in the shipping charge field.

I've ordered from Microchip twice; once during their "free shipping"
offer, and once recently to buy cheap poison chips (with LEAD!) and
a picKit1 firmware upgrade.    The recent order totaled $117, with
$11 shipping, no handling, no tax. I consider that reasonable (it
was two boxes, one from the US and one from Thailand.)

BillW

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