AVR-Chat

On Nov 14, 2005, at 5:36 PM, James Hatley wrote:

> You are absolutely right David, good point!
>
> Now that I think about it... I should have said something like that  
> as I
> work very closely with the local distributor and with the regional  
> Atmel
> engineer. I have on rare occasion ordered from Digikey but mostly  
> use the
> local distributor which is All-American who have been excellent.

The other point I was trying to make is that in the early stages of a  
project when your management is flopping every which way with the  
slightest breeze, a production estimate using Digi-Key prices is a  
very fair place to start. Is fine for management to pay their own  
employees to do fool's errands, but "Crying 'Wolf!'" is not something  
you want to burden suppliers with. When one really needs support it  
won't be there as they have learned others are real paying customers  
and you are not.

Learn to yank the ropes only when you really expect the bell to ring.

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David Kelly N4HHE, dkelly@HiWAAY.net
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