Very cheap PICmicros®

[NavMicroSystems]

Have you checked THIS out?

If prices would be in EUR or (even better) USD inc. Tax it would be ok,

but GBP ex. VAT ??

[Melanie]

Crownhill's prices are not bad if you want to buy small quantities. If you have a larger requirement then negotiate a better price.

You can always go to www.buy.microchip.com but by the time you factor-in the carriage, you'll probably find that Crownhill is still better on smalls.

Remember that your support of Crownhill also keeps this forum open - there may be cheaper vendors but what do they do to support you? This forum only exists because of their generosity.

[Luciano]

This forum is useful to us but also useful to Crownhill as
inexpensive way of advertisement. (No forum = fewer visitors to their URL).

Many thanks to Crownhill Associates Ltd for this forum!

Best regards,

Luciano

[Phil]

In the past, we only advertised on this forum in the section dedicated to buying/selling. The "featured" banner below the navigation menu is the first time that we have ever placed adverts on the forum as a whole.

The banner is told to only serve up products from the PICmicro categories, which eliminates the possibility of us advertising our own products, which everyone would agree isn't fair.

The adverts are not very intrusive, and as has been said, helps us to pay for the web-hosting, and staff time taken to maintain the forum, upgrade it, etc

Hopefully some people will also save some money by finding prices cheaper than RS/Farnell etc

[Melanie]

The question should be... "Does anyone know of a company that is more expensive than RS?"... There's a connector that we buy for 6p (and if we buy at that price then I'm sure RS do too)... listed in the RS catalogue for 83p... I wish I could mark-up products like that and get away with it!

[Luciano]

1937:
Radiospares founded in a lock-up garage in London by JH Waring
and PM Sebestyen.

2005:
RS is the leading global distributor of industrial products,
supplying over 300,000 products to 80 markets worldwide.

* * * *


Melanie, "300,000" it's a lot of room where to hide bargain
products like your 83 pence connector example.

Here is where the difference (83p-6p) goes:
http://production.investis.com/elect...financialdata/

83 pence is OK if you can order online one connector and receive it
the next day. (OK for prototyping or occasional repairs).

But now that you have the Channel Tunnel, isn't everything becoming
less expensive on your island? Do you still have this old British pound?


Best regards,

Luciano