On Thu, 24 Jul 1997, Gil Parrish wrote:
Message text written by Sam:
I should have mentioned that in a couple months
when the remaining units
are liberated, they will be up for grabs.<
A suggestion. Why don't you start with the existing list of people who
were willing to pay for the units, and allocate one to each. If there
aren't enough to go around, then delete names in some random manner. If
there are units left over, then take the list of folks who requested more
than one and allocate them to those folks in some sort of random manner,
and so on.
This is what I planned to do. I have retained the list. There were a
total of 53 interested persons, so hopefully there will be enough for
everyone. If there are extras then maybe we'll just hold a lottery.
Anybody will take a "freebie", but the folks
who committed to make this
deal work ought to have the first shot at them. I'm just sorry the deal
didn't work out as anticipated. And by the way-- if these aren't
new-in-the-box units, I assume they won't be coming with an instruction
manual?
A lot of people asked about that. The answer I got was that Mike would
try to get at least a couple manuals, as he didn't know how many there
were, and the distributors would make photocopies and pass along the cost
to the buyer.
Sam
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