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Hi John,
Sorted now, I do not know what was happening with the first PC, probably did not like Win7 / Chrome?
Found the issue with PayPal, there was an option button that was annoyingly preset to ON. Why they do not have an option "I do not want a PayPal account, will never have one so stop hassling me" button.

Regards,
Bob

Many thanks for the Amicus8 board John. It looks beautiful.

I'll use it in any pictures I can, or videos, and give a link to your site.

Best regards
Les

Some good news for once

For a limited time I've reduced the prices on the Amicus 16A/16B and Amicus 8 boards in order to shift some of my stock, so there isn't a better time to buy!

https://easy-driver.co.uk/amicus/

Click on the Ordering link at the bottom of that page to place an order.

John

Quote from: John Lawton on Jul 08, 2025, 03:48 PMSome good news for once

For a limited time I've reduced the prices on the Amicus 16A/16B and Amicus 8 boards in order to shift some of my stock, so there isn't a better time to buy!

https://easy-driver.co.uk/amicus/

Click on the Ordering link at the bottom of that page to place an order.

John

How about 50% off - but for a very short limited window? 

FIRE SALE!

Quote from: CPR on Jul 08, 2025, 08:29 PMHow about 50% off - but for a very short limited window?

Chris, you got it, all boards are now £19.99 for a limited time.

I make less than no money on these at this price, this is a golden opportunity to buy so I can hopefully shift some stock!

John

Woohoo! On my way to your site right now. Thanks John!!!     

Ordered! 

Hi John,
I had the same issue as last time, I think it is the same PC?
I tried again and was just about to pay and then noticed that at the top it said £45.48 which is the correct amount but at the bottom it said
You authorise up to £56.85 GBP to include any additional seller charges etc
I have never noticed this before, is it normal. I never trust PayPal to not do anything sneaky.



Regards,
Bob

Hi Bob,

that's very odd, I've never seen anything like that before and I don't know how it would work.

My website checkout only charges what it says, I don't get any chance to charge 'a bit more' for extras.

Maybe this 'feature' is for Ebay customers, possibly to do with currency conversion fluctuations. Who knows?

John

Hi John,
I had a terrible time getting it done, I tried a different machine and that had the same issue with the spinning circle. That was with firefox so i then used Edge, that then showed a different amount (£55) in the PayPal bit but I ignored it so will check later, it does seem a bit strange they add this bit.
I did have an issue ordering 2 different boards, I did the first one (Amicus8) and there is no "continue shopping" option so I went back to ordering and ordered the second one (Amicus16A) but it only showed the first one. It was not until I added the country that it showed both items?

Regards,
Bob

Hi Bob,

thank you very much for your order which looks correct from this side.

Good that you got it to work in the end, but sorry to hear that you had problems with the ordering process, I haven't seen those issues in my own tests. Do you think your issues are with PayPal or with my shopping cart (or both)?

Has anyone else had issues ordering?

John

Hi John,
The PayPal issue (ignoring the weird amount) seems to be an issue with Firefox or possibly Firefox / Windows 7.
In the past I have only ordered one item so no problem but it does take you straight to the cart when you add it. I then had the issue when I went ordering and added another which did not show up until I selected the country.
I now have a strange issue where I have items in the cart, I can delete them but if I go back to the cart they reappear. Not a major issue for me as I have enough boards now. I might try it on a different machine when I fire it up.

Regards,
Bob

I had a similar funny - but with the Brave browser (also Mozilla based). It all worked out in the end but the cart did seem to do odd things as Bob describes. One quick thought - in Brave there's a "Shields up" setting (which blocks trackers/popups and ads) I wonder whether that may have had anything to do with it... as it was "On" when I was purchasing. Does Firefox have something similar by chance?

There seem to be some browser issues so I've tweaked the site...

I've changed the Shopping Cart settings on the Ordering page, so that when you click an 'Add to Cart' button, it doesn't jump away to the Cart page.

At the top of the Ordering page it now shows how many items are in the cart. A dark grey View Cart button appears when the cart has items and clicking that button allows you to checkout.

Tested with Windows/Edge & Linux/Firefox browsers. Fingers crossed....

A reminder that we currently have a 'Fire Sale' of Amicus development boards at rock bottom prices. These boards can save a lot of time when testing out new 28pin PICs or trying out new code. The boards are Arduino Uno format and can take many shields.

Amicus 8 replaces the old Amicus 18 boards for 8 bit PICs such as the 18F25K20 Compatibility list

Amicus 16A is for dsPIC33EP and many other parts: Compatibility list

Amicus 16B is for dsPIC33CK super-fast parts. Compatibility list

More details here: https://easy-driver.co.uk/Amicus/


John

For those of you who cannot use PayPal or don't wish to use it to purchase Amicus boards.

https://easy-driver.co.uk/amicus/

I have added a new card payment option using Stripe. I hope this is of some help.

John