> I'm located in Sweden / Europe, a small harbor town called V=E4nersborg.
> The biggest electronics supplier in Sweden is Elfa (www.elfa.se, got
> English pages as well), but they are like 250% overpriced on just
> about everything. Their shipping time is usually <24 hrs (good for
> companies, bad for hobbyists like me), hence their steep prices.
yeah, thier prices do look rather steep, surely there must be other supplie=
rs arround.

farnell appear to have a branch in your country, thier prices seem about th=
e same for one off pics but they seem to drop off more at the 10+ break.

microchip direct are a reasonable source for pics if you can wait a while a=
nd plan to order quite a few at once (for one offs the headline price looks=
 good but the delivery charges are horrible). Microchip also give away free=
 samples pretty readily.

> > > price was a bit too steep for me at this time. Instead, I found this
> > > on eBay: http://tinyurl.com/2d2m4t but I'm not sure it's a ripoff
> > its a ripoff of microchips ICD2.
> =

> Ripoff as in "worthless junk that will work only 5% of the times" or
> ripoff as in "some pirated version with a nice front"?
its almost certainly a clone based on reverese engineered schematics that a=
re floating arround on the web

the sellers feedback seems pretty damn good, one of the things about ebay i=
s if you wan't to keep selling something you have to make it at least reaso=
nable quality.


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