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Date:      Thu, 17 Sep 1998 22:47:03 +0000
From:      Niall Smart <rotel@indigo.ie>
To:        "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com>, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Promotional CDs and evil customs agencies.
Message-ID:  <199809172147.WAA01812@indigo.ie>
In-Reply-To: <25283.906018720@time.cdrom.com>; "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com>

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On Sep 17, 12:52am, "Jordan K. Hubbard" wrote:
} Subject: Promotional CDs and evil customs agencies.

> [ I know that this is typically -chat material, but I'm not going to
>   reach the people who are actually involved by sending this to -chat ]
> 
> I just thought I'd let folks know that I've reached a hard, but
> irrevokable, decision with regard to sending promotional CDs overseas:
> 
> I'm not going to do it anymore.

I was talking to you about getting a promo CD for the Irish Times
(you even said it was a good letter !!*%%#$^) so I take it thats off
the cards now?

What kind of volumes of promo CDs were you sending around?  I would
have never expected a couple of CDs getting much attention at
customs, sheesh.

> If you know of someone in the U.S. who is willing to deal with all
> these issues for you or otherwise provide "trans-shipment" outside the
> U.S., then that's obviously something else entirely and I'm perfectly
> willing to do that.  Sending CDs within the U.S. is not a problem.

I might be interested in doing it for Europe depending on volume
and the amount of hassle it is sending them to people.  (I really
can't see this being a problem, maybe its just US->EU thats causing
difficulty)  So, how many CDs are we talking a month/week on average?

> It's
> not just enough to have a distributor there, you need to have the CDs
> *made* in europe in order to avoid customs problems.

For sale or promo? Did you do to the customs people, you weren't
a drug trafficker in a previous life or anything?


Niall

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Niall Smart, rotel@indigo.ie.
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