From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/27236 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: Cups Date: 25 Nov 1999 18:38:46 +0100 Organization: Programmerer Ingebrigtsen Sender: owner-ding@hpc.uh.edu Message-ID: References: <86903n762l.fsf@megalith.bp.aventail.com> <86wvr6v9sb.fsf@megalith.bp.aventail.com> <9t9so1uh670.fsf@mraz.iskon.hr> NNTP-Posting-Host: coloc-standby.netfonds.no Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1035164297 23541 80.91.224.250 (21 Oct 2002 01:38:17 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 21 Oct 2002 01:38:17 +0000 (UTC) Return-Path: Original-Received: from karazm.math.uh.edu (karazm.math.uh.edu [129.7.128.1]) by sclp3.sclp.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id MAA28478 for ; Thu, 25 Nov 1999 12:37:22 -0500 (EST) Original-Received: from sina.hpc.uh.edu (lists@Sina.HPC.UH.EDU [129.7.3.5]) by karazm.math.uh.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id LAC05192; Thu, 25 Nov 1999 11:37:11 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: by sina.hpc.uh.edu (TLB v0.09a (1.20 tibbs 1996/10/09 22:03:07)); Thu, 25 Nov 1999 11:37:04 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: from sclp3.sclp.com (root@sclp3.sclp.com [204.252.123.139]) by sina.hpc.uh.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id LAA29450 for ; Thu, 25 Nov 1999 11:36:52 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org (quimby.gnus.org [193.69.4.139]) by sclp3.sclp.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id MAA28472 for ; Thu, 25 Nov 1999 12:36:24 -0500 (EST) Original-Received: (from news@localhost) by quimby.gnus.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) id SAA07759 for ding@gnus.org; Thu, 25 Nov 1999 18:38:33 +0100 (CET) Original-To: ding@gnus.org Original-Path: not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnus.ding Original-Lines: 39 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: quimbies.gnus.org Original-X-Trace: quimby.gnus.org 943551512 25941 193.69.4.148 (25 Nov 1999 17:38:32 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@quimby.gnus.org Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: 25 Nov 1999 17:38:32 GMT Mail-Copies-To: never X-Now-Playing: Schneider TM's _Moist_: "Raum Im Ort" User-Agent: Gnus/5.070099 (Pterodactyl Gnus v0.99) XEmacs/21.2 (Sumida) X-Face: &w!^oO~dS|}-P0~ge{$c!h\ writes: > > Hm -- perhaps I should take cash pre-orders from those who want to > > pay by cash? > > Please please please! > > Believe it or not, some of us don't have and can't get a credit card. I'm definitely going to take cash, but I'm wondering if there's any point in doing cash pre-orders. I was thinking -- cash takes up to a week to reach me. So if I get the cups on Dec. 20th, and start to take orders then, then no non-Visa orders will be shipped before Xmas. Which is un-nice. On the other hand, even if the mugs ship on Dec. 21st, then nobody will get them before Xmas anyway, since the postal service in northern Europe around that time grinds to a halt. So, er, uhm. So I was thinking -- pre-orders or not? If the mugs are delayed until the middle of January, then pre-orders (especially cash pre-orders; Visa pre-orders won't be charged until the mugs ship) will have sent out their money *way* ahead of when they get their mugs, which is un-nice. I dunno. Pre-orders or not? Huh? Huh? I'd like to have the mugs before I start taking orders. On the fifth hand, if I take pre-orders and see that the number of orders is much higher than anticipated, then I will be able to bump up the number of mugs to be made. (The final deadline for the actual number of mugs to be made is Dec. 10 or something.) *sigh* Life isn't easy. -- (domestic pets only, the antidote for overdose, milk.) larsi@gnus.org * Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen