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Also, deal with Atmel reps. I've have much good response form them.
Dennis
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "David Kelly" <dkelly@hiwaay.net>
To: <AVR-Chat@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Monday, November 14, 2005 7:52 PM
Subject: Re: [AVR-Chat] cheap chips


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