----- Original Message -----

From: Buettner, = Peter

To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM =

Sent: Wednesday, January 31, = 2001 10:42 AM

Subject: Re: Berg short shift = kit group purchase?

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
>
>
>
> =
>