From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/33942 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Harry Putnam Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: YIKES... My cups.... Date: 29 Dec 2000 14:59:12 -0800 Sender: owner-ding@hpc.uh.edu Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: coloc-standby.netfonds.no Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1035169958 27795 80.91.224.250 (21 Oct 2002 03:12:38 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 21 Oct 2002 03:12:38 +0000 (UTC) Return-Path: Original-Received: from spinoza.math.uh.edu (spinoza.math.uh.edu [129.7.128.18]) by mailhost.sclp.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 70F07D049D for ; Fri, 29 Dec 2000 18:24:06 -0500 (EST) Original-Received: from sina.hpc.uh.edu (lists@Sina.HPC.UH.EDU [129.7.3.5]) by spinoza.math.uh.edu (8.9.1/8.9.1) with ESMTP id RAB10274; Fri, 29 Dec 2000 17:23:53 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: by sina.hpc.uh.edu (TLB v0.09a (1.20 tibbs 1996/10/09 22:03:07)); Fri, 29 Dec 2000 17:21:02 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: from mailhost.sclp.com (postfix@66-209.196.61.interliant.com [209.196.61.66] (may be forged)) by sina.hpc.uh.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id RAA17928 for ; Fri, 29 Dec 2000 17:20:51 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: from freedom.LABridge.com (home.LABridge.com [206.117.169.5]) by mailhost.sclp.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id C0D48D049D for ; Fri, 29 Dec 2000 18:21:13 -0500 (EST) Original-Received: from reader.local.lan (root@home.LABridge.com [206.117.169.5]) by freedom.LABridge.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id PAA18252 for ; Fri, 29 Dec 2000 15:22:38 -0800 Original-Received: (from reader@localhost) by reader.local.lan (8.11.0/8.9.3) id eBTNL3h06224; Fri, 29 Dec 2000 15:21:03 -0800 X-Authentication-Warning: reader.local.lan: reader set sender to reader@newsguy.com using -f Original-To: ding@gnus.org In-Reply-To: Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen's message of "29 Dec 2000 22:43:18 +0100" User-Agent: Gnus/5.0808 (Gnus v5.8.8) Emacs/20.7 Original-Lines: 52 Precedence: list X-Majordomo: 1.94.jlt7 Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:33942 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:33942 Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen writes: > Harry Putnam writes: > > > Well Lars, you can still chuckle up your sleeve because, the > > conversion still ends up almost double what I thought I was paying. > > ? The order form should have said exactly what you were paying. Was > it wrong? Probably dopeyness on my part... And understand, this was in no way a complaint. It was supposed to be funny. I didn't keep the order form or at least can't find anything now that looks like an order form for those cups. It may have been tasteless to bring this up here... I thought it was kind of funny, and that you would appreciate the humor in it. As I recall the cups were priced at $10 each, which would be $40 in US dollars. Forgetting any taxes and shipping for the moment. The bill on the cups (I just got today) Showed 640.00. Which at first I took to be US dollars! .....That was the joke. Finally I noticed it was kroner. Then I recalled that when ordering I had read something to the effect that all transactions would be converted to kroner. So being somewhat interested by then, I looked up a web source to make the conversion: http://www.xe.net/ucc/convert.cgi Shows: Universal Currency Converter[tm] Results by Xenon Labs Rates as of 2000.12.29 17:40:19 EST. 640.00 NOK = 72.6637 USD Norway Kroner United States Dollars Nearly double 4x10 Understand now that I have not seen my actual visa statement, nor am I particularly concerned. Price was not much of a factor in my purchasing the cups so may not have been real attentive to that part. How might I recognize any receipt I may have had? Is there a keyword likely to be on it that would allow me to grep it out easily? They are very nice cups.... I've done something to support Gnus development... So ..... I am a happy camper.