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Date:         Thu, 24 Aug 2000 21:12:05 +1200
Reply-To:     Andrew Grebneff <andrew.grebneff@stonebow.otago.ac.nz>
Sender:       Vanagon Mailing List <vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com>
From:         Andrew Grebneff <andrew.grebneff@stonebow.otago.ac.nz>
Subject:      Re: Found: alternative longer lugbolts
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>
><< Got you beat.
> I got mine for free from the junkyard and didn't pocket them.
> Just bought some wheels and wasn't charged for the bolts. >>
>
>Yer ears were burnin', eh?
>
>Mr. Dooley, that was but a marketing ploy by the junkyard. You didn't get
>them for free. They just factor all the freebies into their bottom line. In
>other words, it's part of the price of the wheels.
>
>I got a free car once. It's just I had to pay $30,000 for the tires.
>
>BenT


Depends. If they set a price on the wheels alone without knowing he wanted
the nuts, and then he told them, they might have said "you can have them".


Andrew
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