Thanks everybody, at the moment I am happy, but I know I have to learn lot
of things on this, how to and where from order in different circumstances. I
still could not believe for example that a microcontroller has quite the
similar price as a 3 way 2.5mm connector but if that's true I should not try
to save money on the PIC itself.

Thanks again for the lots of adivse!

Tamas


On 05/09/06, John Chung <kravnus@yahoo.com> wrote:
>
> 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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