From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/33945 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Harry Putnam Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: YIKES... My cups.... Date: 29 Dec 2000 17:11:19 -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 1035169960 27807 80.91.224.250 (21 Oct 2002 03:12:40 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 21 Oct 2002 03:12:40 +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 50E5AD049D for ; Fri, 29 Dec 2000 20:53:34 -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 TAB10666; Fri, 29 Dec 2000 19:53:26 -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 19:51:26 -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 TAA18697 for ; Fri, 29 Dec 2000 19:51:16 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: from freedom.LABridge.com (home.LABridge.com [206.117.169.5]) by mailhost.sclp.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 91C1AD049D for ; Fri, 29 Dec 2000 20:51:41 -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 RAA19010 for ; Fri, 29 Dec 2000 17:55:03 -0800 Original-Received: (from reader@localhost) by reader.local.lan (8.11.0/8.9.3) id eBU1pXb06433; Fri, 29 Dec 2000 17:51:33 -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 "30 Dec 2000 00:47:16 +0100" User-Agent: Gnus/5.0808 (Gnus v5.8.8) Emacs/20.7 Original-Lines: 33 Precedence: list X-Majordomo: 1.94.jlt7 Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:33945 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:33945 Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen writes: > Harry Putnam writes: > > > 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. > > :-) > > > Nearly double 4x10 > > Shipping 2x 1kg via Air Mail is NOK 240, aka. USD 27, so there's > something odd going on here. Hmmm... My records show your billing as > NOK 604, which is USD 67, which adds up. Did I really bill you NOK > 640? > > (Only that I really charged you NOK 40 too much, since it was 2kg, not > 2x 1kg, which my order form postage calculation thingie messed up, I > see. (Counting the 2x silver and 2x red separately.) I need to find > out how to work the "refund" thing on my Visa thing...) NO.. NO.. NO.. NO.. Yikes again... I hate it when I make a fool of myself in public. Indeed it is 604.00.. All this just goes to show that a dumb country boy should never kibbitz with a sharp money changer. Especially if it involves international currency. Sorry for the fuss. Well, sorry for the fuss that wasn't really a fuss.