Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!unix.cis.pitt.edu!dsinc!widener!ukma!memstvx1!utkcs2!emory!wuarchive!uunet!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!sei.cmu.edu!fs7.ece.cmu.edu!o.gp.cs.cmu.edu!andrew.cmu.edu!mc4c+ From: mc4c+@andrew.cmu.edu (Mark Choi) Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st Subject: USENET mail order service??? Message-ID: Date: 6 May 91 19:45:51 GMT Organization: Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA Lines: 30 Dear Netters: I have recently been toying around with an idea. I have the facility to get most current ST software and hardware at wholesale, and was thinking that maybe, since there are so few dealers of ST stuff lately, and not everyone subscribes to STart or some other source of mailorder advertising, that I might offer a sort of USENET ST mail order service. Question: Does anyone think this goes against USENET ethics about commercial advertsing, etc.? Question: Would anyone be interseted? This is all legal software, obtained legally, and above board. I even have a sales tax number, etc. All involved parties are reimbursed, both distributor and software publisher. My prices would be about 30%-50% below the suggested retail, and around 10%-15% below mailorder, as I am not doing this to make heaps of money, just to try and get some ST stuff out there. Also, since relatively few ST owners also have access to the Usenet, I do not think I will be taking business from the mailorder houses, or dealers, or else I would not do this. Please respond to this account with any opinions. If there is no, or very little, objection, I will post a "sign post" in a short while, after the responses start to peter out. Thanks in advance to all who respond. -Mark Choi- -Solutions: a Mac multimedia developement company-