Date:         Wed, 31 Jan 2001 13:14:23 -0500
Reply-To:     Doug Alcock <dgalcock@HEWITT.COM>
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From:         Doug Alcock <dgalcock@HEWITT.COM>
Subject:      Re: Berg short shift kit group purchase?
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>Berg will give us 15% off their $31 price bringing our cost to $25.46 each
>plus the shipping and reshipping for a minimum order of 5 units. I don't have
>the funds to front a group purchase but if a more "financially positioned"
>member wants to organize it, I think we have enough interest. Anyone up for
>it?
>
>Ken Hunter
>82 Westy 1.9D
>84 Jetta 1.5D

I'm interested and there are two other Canadians as well. Peter Buettner just
finished organising the Airlift group purchase and perhaps we can ask his
opinion on how to go about this.I have a couple of thoughts (though god knows
they're lonely).

1) In the Airlift purchase. Airlift handled the shipping from their end.
Hopefully Berg would do this as well. It seems like a huge task to saddle one
list member with --- receiving and re-directing x number of short shift kits.
Airlift also got enough orders to absorb the shipping costs (to US and Canada)
themselves. Hopefully, if we get enough orders Berg would do this --- maybe even
drop their price further. Since you (Ken) got a reply out of Berg --- I tried
but they didn't respond ---- maybe you'd be willing to enquire further

2) With the Airlift purchase, Peter collected the money --- he didn't front the
purchase. So we don't need a Daddy Warbucks here. We need someone willing to
collect and hold the cash and then remit it en masse to Berg along with the
order list. The whole question of exchange rate and lack of Paypal for Canada
precludes me from doing this.

3) I am willing to set up a web form to collect order data and to take care of
that end of things.

4) One more question for Peter. How many Airlift kits were purchased?? ---- this
would probably be a good number to quote at Berg.

What do y'all think??

Cheers,
Doug Alcock
'84 Westy
Toronto, Canada