[Boatanchors] Electronic Goldmine parts

[Bill O'Brien]

Pete, tell us how you really feel! :-) Buying products shouldn't require 
copious amounts of lubricant and the services of a proctologist. 
Unfortunately, in this age of gotcha, it does. Just wish Rod Hogg had 
mentioned how much shipping he paid. Somebody hand me a rotten egg. I'm 
getting angry again. ;-)

-O'B.
ex-KA2MKI

On 3/5/2014 11:06 AM, Pete Lancashire wrote:
> You to can buy one ..  but wait there's more ... Only $9.95  and in a 
> very small font plus S+H ...
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> To a lot of people making a bit of "hidden" profit on each sale is 
> much more important the keeping a good customer who will come back.
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> Today it is even worse, there are not entries on an MBA's spread sheet 
> called "customer satisfaction" on a column on the bottom right that
> says profit.
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> I've bought via the E over 1,000 items 75% Test & Measurement, %10 
> Manuals and Magazines.
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> The worst are those that sell a manual for $25 and then want $12.50 to 
> ship it. In all cases except maybe 5 ? .. the answer back has been
> that is what it is and unspoken take it or leave it. In most cases I 
> 'leave it'. A couple times I've written the CEO/President of a BIG manual
> seller, never gotten a reply, nor expected one.
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> Manuals can be shipped USPS Book rate, or even First Class for less 
> the $12.50.
>
> Back to you knobs. Pretty much the same. The seller could care less if 
> you buy them or not, and by the end of the year they can throw them out
> and write them off .. see .. they saved money at the end of the 
> quarter,  give that accountant a raise !!!!
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> So the little mom and pop see's this and says to them selves I too can 
> 'make money' this way ... but for some reason they just can't figure out
> why no one want to buy what they have for sale ..
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> sorry .. but in one of those moods
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> On Wed, Mar 5, 2014 at 7:26 AM, Bill O'Brien <hardedge at optonline.net 
> <mailto:hardedge at optonline.net>> wrote:
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>     Just ordered two bags of knobs - $17.90
>     Charged me $14.07 for USPS shipping.
>     Seems a bit high. If it turns out that the knobs fit in a small
>     priority flat rate box ($5.50) I'm really not going to be a happy
>     camper.
>
>     Order Date : 3/5/2014 10:08:49 AM Eastern
>     ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
>     ITEM# DESCRIPTION QTY TOTAL
>     ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
>     G19803 Antique Used Control Knobs (Assortment 2 $17.90
>     ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
>     SUB TOTAL: $17.90 TAX: $0.00 SHIPPING: $14.07 U.S. POSTAL SERVICE
>     - (US CONTINENTAL ONLY) ORDER TOTAL: $31.97Just sayin'.
>
>     -O'B.
>     ex-KA2MKI
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