Mini Mania is the same way but at least with them you can look it up on the
web.
LM
-----Original Message-----
From: J. Adrian Barnes <adrian@icx.net>
To: spridgets <spridgets@Autox.Team.Net>
Date: 15 December, 1998 11:35 AM
Subject: SICP weirdness
>I finally got Special Interest Car Parts to send me a catalog, and there
>wasn't a price sheet. Called 'em up and was told that due to the rapid
>fluctuation of the British Pound, they weren't distributing price lists
>anymore. ????? Huh? She said I could just call them for prices.
>Let's see...a ten minute phone call at .07 a minute, say, resulting in
>no sale, my frustration, and a bill to them of .70. OR... copying a
>price list of 3-4 sheets at .03 a sheet and simply enclosing that in the
>packet they already send out with a catalog....
>
>Is that strange, or is there some sort of economic merit to that policy?
>
>adrian,
>confused
>
>
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