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From: "Christoph P. Kukulies" <kuku@gilberto.physik.rwth-aachen.de>
Subject: Re: the books are here !
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> Gary Jennejohn wrote:
> > books shipped to me. It was NOT cheap ! My 10 books cost 131 USD to
> > ship. Add on the re-shipping cost and it may have been cheaper to
> > have Readme.Doc ship the books directly to each person who ordered.
> > I can't say.
> 
> I just got my credit card bill of this month. The guys at readme.doc
> took $95.76 for 2 books. That is $27 for shipping. I thnk that is
> rediculous. I am thinking about ghaving my credit card company undoing

Note that DHL shipping is always expensive. That's their price.It's fast
and it is two day air mail. It has to be kind of blamed to ourselves
that we didn't negotiate that beforehand.

> the transaction. I think we shouldnt do business with these guys anymore.

Don't be so harsh :-) The price we payed ($ 33.00 vs. $ 48.00 single list
price) is OK. I asked at my local book store and their price would have
been more than DM 110,-- (at least they said, more likely more).
Paying around DM 80,-- (including shipping within Europe) is OK.

Again, for the future, say, BSD 4.5 (:-) we should think of 
better shipping modalities.


> 
> Any other advise of your side maybe?
> 
> -Guido

--Chris Christoph P. U. Kukulies kuku@gil.physik.rwth-aachen.de