On Wed, 10 Mar 2004, The Bus Depot wrote: > On the other hand, if you're suggesting that $55 plus > shipping/duty/brokerage might begin to approach the $100 cost of the > Berg part, which has known quality and can be bought one at a time by > individual listmembers as desired.... well, then that is an entirely > different issue. Of course, there is the fact that Berg doesn't have any in stock and they don't seem to know when they'll have more. It sounds to me like they don't really care that much about selling these things. Must be a low profit/low volume item for them.
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