From: Bill Morrow (penzance_at_gate.net)
Date: Fri Dec 21 2001 - 12:54:25 EST
no, they did not try to charge three states sales tax..
only florida..
and they were willing to take my resale certificate # and faxed copy so as
to not charge any sales tax at all..
and there MAY be something going on with the shipping and the sales guys,
but the guy i spoke to said he coyld not remove the priority overnight
selection fro the program taking the order..
not after i wanted to have my sales tax removed...
and one more thing, i must apologise for the content of some of my e-mails..
an answer might start in the morning (noon for me) and wind up being sent at
night..
so i loose my train of thought and sloppy language winds up in these
messages..
or the message gets sent before editing or even being complete..
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Cordially, :-)
Bill Morrow
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----- Original Message -----
From: "James H. E. Maugham" <James.H.Maugham_at_verizon.net>
To: "Jim Biggerstaff" <duh2000_at_bellatlantic.net>; "THINKPAD_at_CS.UTK.EDU"
<THINKPAD_at_cs.utk.edu>
Cc: "Bill Morrow" <Bill_at_thinkpads.com>
Sent: Friday, December 21, 2001 12:00 PM
Subject: RE: Thinkpad Transnote "Half Price" at Tiger Direct - $999
> Jim,
>
> Jim Biggerstaff [mailto:duh2000_at_bellatlantic.net] wrote:
>
> > The experiences are so different that I wonder if the salespersons have
an
> > incentive to push 'high priced shipping' of which a portion is profit
for
> > Tiger and bonus for the salesperson. Some salespersons might insist the
> > high priced shipping is unavoidable (and then can't back down and offer
> > cheaper alternatives) and others may not and find the best deal for the
> > customer.
>
> There has to be something like that going on. I've never had any bad
experiences
> with Tiger, very similar to those of David and Ray in fact. Multiple
orders will
> frequently _not_ be combined, but I think that's more a reflection of the
fact
> that items are often sent from different warehouses.
>
> And, unlike Bill, they _have_ accepted a 3rd party FedEx account no. for
> shipping to a client's location, although I haven't attempted to get them
to
> ship to me on my account no. But I also can't figure Bill's statement that
they
> attmepted to charge him sales taxes from THREE states?? How the heck does
_that_
> work?
>
> Regards,
>
> James
>
>
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