Homebrew PCBs

On Sun, 30 Apr 2006 22:09:07 +0200, fenrir_co <fenrir@...>  
wrote:

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> Staples carries a Jet Tec resetter for about $10, not all stores have
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> it though so call ahead first.
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> Yes, you can get them for $1-3 on eBay... plus $10 shipping, most of
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> the time. Plus the wait to ship it. Then you hope it won't mess up the
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> chip, etc.


But looking at the time to visit a shop even relatively close by the  
shipping doesn't look so bad.
Even according to your pricing i would only save $1-3 for going to the  
shop, my time is worth more than that. And most likely the shop doesn't  
have it, or ran out of it, or it is incredibly expensive...
If i ebay with some wit to find a reasonable seller, which means paying  
about $6 for the resetter and about $4 for shipping, that takes me less  
than 10 minutes, at home, any time of day or night i like. Then i just  
need to wait for it to arrive in my mailbox, which with reasonable  
planning is not going to matter because i ordered it in time.

Ebay does have it's advantages. I cought myself several times buying stuff  
in shops i would not have bought at ebay for that price, usually because i  
was in a hurry and had planned to go there and buy that and just wasn't  
flexible enough in my planning to actually think and notice i'm doing  
something stupid.


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