Date:         Fri, 21 Nov 2003 11:10:26 -0500
Reply-To:     marty <martysemail@WIDEOPENWEST.COM>
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From:         marty <martysemail@WIDEOPENWEST.COM>
Subject:      Re: ETKA & ELSA ?  burning and shipping for free???
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sam.cooks wrote:

> Chris,
>
> How many of us can send you an address and have you still be willing to
> burn the CD and ship it to us for free?  (Mine is below.)
>
> Time to burn, cost of CD, cost of shipping envelope and protective slip
> for the CD, time to package and address, plus postage.
>
> Frank does all this for the $10.  He therefore isn't be charging
> anything for the contents.  If you figure in anything for his time, he
> clearly is losing money and maybe is anyway.
>
>
I did this a few years ago (for  free, because I'm a nice guy) when I
used windows, ETKA 4 if I remember right. The time to burn the cd is
moot: put a cd in, set up the program (1 minute), walk away. Come back
in ten minutes (12x burner) and it's done. A spindle of 100 cds is about
$10 on sale so that's 10-15 cents for the cd.  I bought the shipping
envelopes for about 50 cents each at the post office. I buy protective
sleeves dirt cheap (like 200 for 5 bucks, just paper deals) from
OfficeMax. Time to package, address and drive to the post office: 15
minutes (for me anyways). The farthest I remember sending one was to
Canada (I'm in Michigan) and it wasn't more than $2.50 postage. I
remember I sent out 6 cds and altogether it wasn't more than $15.

Someone send me the latest ETKA and I'm willing to send out 10 copies,
plus I'll report back to the list the average cost it was to send them out.

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Marty