Date:         Sat, 3 Oct 2009 17:11:44 -0700
Reply-To:     mark drillock <mdrillock@COX.NET>
Sender:       Vanagon Mailing List <vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com>
From:         mark drillock <mdrillock@COX.NET>
Subject:      Re: prices not listed?
Comments: To: Allan Streib <streib@CS.INDIANA.EDU>
In-Reply-To:  <m163awkqo4.fsf@cs.indiana.edu>
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I went to the site and looked around before I replied the first time.
They provide an email contact on the site so if you are worried you will
quickly forget that you want to spend $$$ with them just send them an
email now. In any case my reply was to the other reply, not to you.

Mark


Allan Streib wrote:
> mark drillock <mdrillock@COX.NET> writes:
>..........
> It was not my intent to imply anything underhanded was going on, and I
> don't think I did.  I simply made the observation that having prices on
> websites, even if you have to add a footnote about overweight shipping
> etc. is more useful than omitting this information.  Here it is 7:00 on
> a Saturday night, I'm not going to call them and by Monday I might have
> forgotten about them or, because I have a job too, might find it
> inconvenient to call.
>
> If they are interested in having fulling informed customers, it would
> help to give folks a ballpark idea of the price ($500? $1000? $1500?).
> With that I could make a more informed decision about whether this is
> something I want to follow up on, without taking a chance at wasting my
> time (and theirs) if I can't afford it.
>
> Allan
> --
> 1991 Vanagon GL
>