You can try futurlec. Shipping time can be quite long
since they have to look for the parts first before
shipping.

John


--- Tamas Rudnai <tamas.rudnai@gmail.com> wrote:

> 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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