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Date:         Wed, 31 Jan 2001 10:42:57 -0800
Reply-To:     "Buettner, Peter" <PGB@DOLBY.COM>
Sender:       Vanagon Mailing List <vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com>
From:         "Buettner, Peter" <PGB@DOLBY.COM>
Subject:      Re: Berg short shift kit group purchase?
Comments: To: Doug Alcock <dgalcock@hewitt.com>, EVEHART33@AOL.COM
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Hi Doug and all,

I'm currently off the list. Too much other stuff to do :-( Please keep my pmail address on your replies.

For the AirLift group purchase I collected the money up front in form of personal checks, money orders, PayPal and PayDirect payments. PayPal turned out to be a real looser since they now have a limit on how much money you can receive from credit card payments (only $500). I also collected everybody's shipping address (not as easy as it sounds). All information was collected on a spread sheet (last name, first name email address, phone number, street, city, country, number of kit 1 ordered, number of kit 2 ordered, $$ paid, payment type). This spread sheet together with a big check went to AirLift. They shipped all orders from their warehouses (except for overseas orders which I will ship via USPS). They have a warehouse in Canada also. This makes it easy for them to fulfill the Canadian orders. All in all I ordered 72 kits from AirLift and had over 100 inquiries.

Hope this answers your questions. Let me know if there's anything else.

Peter

> -----Original Message----- > From: Doug Alcock [mailto:dgalcock@hewitt.com] > Sent: Wednesday, January 31, 2001 10:14 AM > To: EVEHART33@AOL.COM > Cc: Buettner, Peter; vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com > Subject: Re: Berg short shift kit group purchase? > > > > > >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 > > > > >


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