<div><span class="gmail_quote">On 9/8/05, <b class="gmail_sendername">geoff james</b> <<a href="mailto:afas00@bigpond.net.au">afas00@bigpond.net.au</a>> wrote:</span>
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<div><font face="Arial" size="2">hi all.</font></div>
<div><font face="Arial" size="2">recently i placed an RFQ with a chip supplier and to my surprise they actually got back to me.(i have sent many RFQ's to many co's and never recieved a reply).</font></div>
<div><font face="Arial" size="2">then things went pair shaped.</font></div>
<div><font face="Arial" size="2">the price was high( 57.00 ea), but when you need it you pay for it.</font></div>
<div><font face="Arial" size="2">all i required was 3, but that fell short of thier $500 min order.</font></div>
<div><font face="Arial" size="2">that was that.</font></div>
<div><font face="Arial" size="2">where the fuck do these chips end up?</font></div>
<div><font face="Arial" size="2">do they sit on a shelf until some bean counter say's" throw them in the trash"?</font></div>
<div><font face="Arial" size="2">in my case they would have gotten $US 171.00 for putting 3x ic's in a small parcel and charged me shipping.</font></div>
<div><font face="Arial" size="2">go figure.</font></div>
<div><font face="Arial" size="2">regards</font></div><span class="sg">
<div><font face="Arial" size="2">geoff james</font></div></span></blockquote></div>
<div><br>You actually might have better luck just asking for samples. Again, go figure; you can get three or four FREE parts fairly easily, but the devil's own time trying to actually BUY just three parts. I've heard Atmel is good about samples too.
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<div>Tim (once sampled a sample and hold chip) Servo<br>-- <br>"Imagination is more important than knowledge." - Albert Einstein </div>