Time for Pi

[William Park]

On Sat, May 18, 2013 at 04:28:27PM -0400, William Park wrote:
> On Sat, May 18, 2013 at 12:32:46PM -0400, D. Hugh Redelmeier wrote:
> > | From: Evan Leibovitch <evan-ieNeDk6JonTYtjvyW6yDsg at public.gmane.org>
> > | Now ... about procurement...
> > | 
> > | The two sites that are the direct sellers -- Newark and Allied -- both
> > | appear to make you create an account before they'll tell you shipping
> > | costs. What are they? Is one suppier clearly better than the other? Is
> > | there any clear advantage to multiple people pooling into one order?
> > 
> > I've bought a few from Newark.  They charged me $8 shipping and were
> > very very quick.  Slight hickups:
> 
> Newark forced me to create an account with credit card first, before
> they tell me total cost.  You are not allowed to store credit cards,
> even encrypted (well, last time I dealt with PCI rules).  So, I don't
> know how they get away with that.  I went with Mouser when I orderd
> Beaglebone Black ($45 + $8 US Postal Service).

Correction... $48.15 + $8
-- 
William
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