From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <45219fb00912050417u37300ddep2912fc56e23a8e7a@mail.gmail.com> References: <68eb39920912042229i6a585f11j26185397e4d73bc7@mail.gmail.com> <8ccc8ba40912050411l22323f34x87715b3a724a2195@mail.gmail.com> <45219fb00912050417u37300ddep2912fc56e23a8e7a@mail.gmail.com> Date: Sat, 5 Dec 2009 07:10:02 -0800 Message-ID: <3e1162e60912050710v7a9398ceue94c2b82820f4ac0@mail.gmail.com> From: David Leimbach To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net> Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary=000e0cd6ac2062fd650479fc9e9e Subject: Re: [9fans] SheevaPlug Topicbox-Message-UUID: a8649cb4-ead5-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 --000e0cd6ac2062fd650479fc9e9e Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable i wonder if there's a complicated volume pricing thing going on where these companies take orders, accumulating volume so they increase their margins before they ship. I can't imagine why else they'd drag their feet on it except that they want to get a good price as a reseller, and don't want to be sitting on a lot of inventory. Dave On Sat, Dec 5, 2009 at 4:17 AM, Llu=EDs Batlle wrote: > Mine I bougth some months ago, also from globalscale. They took more > than one month to ship it, but after their notice about the shipment, > it came in two days. It came in a nice packaging box, with all the > cables, and a CD with the source code. > > 2009/12/5 Francisco J Ballesteros : > > ours is still on its way, from globalscale tech. > > They took at least 3 weeks to ship our order. > > Finally they did, but as I said, still on the way, despite > > choosing a good delivery. But that may be only when > > you buy from europe. > > > > On Sat, Dec 5, 2009 at 7:29 AM, Don Bailey wrote= : > >> So, what is everyone's preferred plug vendor? Out of the three, is the= re > a > >> preference for people out there hacking on the Sheeva? > >> Thanks, > >> D > >> > >> > > > > > > --000e0cd6ac2062fd650479fc9e9e Content-Type: text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable i wonder if there's a complicated volume pricing thing going on where t= hese companies take orders, accumulating volume so they increase their marg= ins before they ship. =A0I can't imagine why else they'd drag their= feet on it except that they want to get a good price as a reseller, and do= n't want to be sitting on a lot of inventory.

Dave

On Sat, Dec 5, 2009 a= t 4:17 AM, Llu=EDs Batlle <viriketo@gmail.com> wrote:
Mine I bougth some months ago, also from globalscale. They took more
than one month to ship it, but after their notice about the shipment,
it came in two days. It came in a nice packaging box, with all the
cables, and a CD with the source code.

2009/12/5 Francisco J Ballesteros <nemo= @lsub.org>:
> ours is still on its way, from globa= lscale tech.
> They took at least 3 weeks to ship our order.
> Finally they did, but as I said, still on the way, despite
> choosing a good delivery. But that may be only when
> you buy from europe.
>
> On Sat, Dec 5, 2009 at 7:29 AM, Don Bailey <don.bailey@gmail.com> wrote:
>> So, what is everyone's preferred plug vendor? Out of the three= , is there a
>> preference for people out there hacking on the Sheeva?
>> Thanks,
>> D
>>
>>
>
>


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