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Re: Garfinkel/Mahoney Book Update

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From: Irving_Wolfe
Date: Tue, 15 Dec 1992 04:32
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Okay, all the $37 copies have been sold.

Please save me the trouble of writing back to you, by acknowledging
in your future orders that the price is $40, shipping included to
U.S. destinations.

If you wish you'd been in the initial order, next time _act_
instead of contemplating, especially if you're dealing with a known
fool like me, who gives good deals to begin with.  If the news just
didn't reach you in time, pay a few bucks for a decent connection.

As I said:

>3.  Re-orders will necessarily be in smaller quantities, since I'm 
>not willing to risk getting stuck with 30 copies on the shelf here.  
>That means a much smaller discount.  

>The book, as described in comp.sys.next.misc by an early reviewer,
>Claude W. Anderson:

>> In mid-January, I was faced with the reality that in 7 weeks I was 
>> scheduled to teach NeXTSTEP programming to a group of 70 freshmen
>> . . . .  My first two weeks with the book was sufficient to take me 
>> from total trepidation about doing the course to a reasonable level 
>> of confidence (and competence, I hope).  That in itself says a lot 
>> for the book. . . .  I think they did well to concentrate on 
>> getting the user comfortable with a few classes rather than trying 
>> to be encyclopedic.  The encyclopedic documentation already exists; 
>> the tour guide is what is needed (and provided). 

>[Note that if you _want_ the encyclopedic documentation, I'm still
>selling the official NeXTSTEP 3.0 Developer's Library, too, at the
>attractive price of $224.06 for the 8-volume set.]

>To order, if you want to, send me your:
>	name
>	shipping address
>	telephone numbers (specifying day/evening as appropriate)
>	fax number (if available)
>	e-mail address
>	credit card number and expiration date
>	AND PLEASE TELL ME WHAT YOU ARE ORDERING since I'm still
>	 selling the NeXT Doc Set too.

Please be careful doing this; we got two bad credit card numbers 
(both from a single digit mis-typed), two missing cities, and two 
bad e-mail addresses among the orders to date.  No big deal, but it 
slows things down and means extra work for both of us.  That's the 
kind of time-waste that forced me to raise the price.  

Overseas orders are $10 additional.

All future orders should preferably be by regular e-mail, not fax, 
phone, NextMail (unless you're including your fingerprints,
voiceprint, or wedding photo), etc.  
-- 
 Irving_Wolfe@Happy-Man.com      Happy Man Corp.  206/463-9399 x101
 4410 SW Pt. Robinson Rd., Vashon Island, WA  98070-7399   fax x108
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From: irving@Happy-Man.com (Irving_Wolfe)
Subject: Re: Garfinkel/Mahoney Book Update
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