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From:John Lord
Date:10 Aug 2000 at 11:54:43
Subject:Re: BVisions & Extra Ram. was Heretic II Sales?

Hi Alan

, On 10-Aug-00, you wrote:

>> > 10 ukp is pretty much a going rate for fast guaranteed deliveries. the
>> > solution? Offset the memory price by buying more than just the one thing
>> > eg harddrive, or modem, printer or scanner etc

Oh yeh, that's easy for you to say :)

>> Is it 'eck! Eyetech charged me £3.00 for next day delivery (guaranteed) on
>> a PortJnr. A SIMM is smaller than that.

> thats Eyetech (who also only charged 3 ukp for a network card delivery)
> Eyetechs stock prices are higher though...so its horses for courses.

spose so.

>> Plus, when I sent it back to them, it cost me a total of £1.41, for the
>> postage (the same postage as Eyetech sent it to me with - recorded next
>> day) and the jiffy bag!!!

>> £10 is a rip off!

> its pretty standard in the PC marketplace. you then buy more per purchase
> instead of orders of just one item. I deal with companies that charge 25 ukp
> for deliveries...and apparently we have a 60 ukp overhead on EVERY order we
> make (admin costs in time/effort and environment) - un-f$*&ing-believable.

Huh? overpaid if you ask me :))

Regards



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John



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