23 Dec
1998
23 Dec
'98
3:01 a.m.
And don't
forget to tell him how bad money transfer between
the US and Europe is
It seems most people don't know about the
"international postal money
order," available at your post office, almost anywhere on Earth.
It's cheaper than cutting a check in another country's funds. > And to think about the horrible transportation
costs -
Sorry, can't do anything about that... although
it sounds like
an enterprising computer arbitrageur or even an antique dealer
could make some money by filling a trans-ocean container with
"rare" European computers, and shipping it to San Francisco,
and vice-versa.
Not so new, I know at least 2 men who are visiting US fleamarkets/
swap meets and buy tons of junk, fill containers and sell them
again in a simmilar environment over here - I found a nice Patchinko
machine here, that has been used in Seattle before and shipped this
way.
By the way, I still lokk for people interested in Russian PDP
clones - I can send some, but again one is to expensive.
If I had any idea to sell them over in the US, I would like to
do this with european computers. But its hard without storage
and time to sell - I just can't stack them and wait for sale.
And for the cost, a complete 20' container is available for less
than 1800 USD between the West coast and an European port (like
Hamburg) So, I guess, starting from 10 or 12 compurers, this
would be a lot cheaper than surface postage - and more early if
they are heavy weight S100s.
Gruss
H.
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Ich denke, also bin ich, also gut
HRK