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From: philip@axis.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.os.minix
Subject: Re: Priced for the masses?
Message-ID: <192@axis.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 25-Feb-87 04:14:47 EST
Article-I.D.: axis.192
Posted: Wed Feb 25 04:14:47 1987
Date-Received: Fri, 27-Feb-87 23:23:36 EST
References: <411@ivax.doc.ic.ac.uk>
Organization: Axis Digital, Paris
Lines: 31
Keywords: minix distribution
Summary: No, you are not being mean ...

In article <411@ivax.doc.ic.ac.uk>, kpt@icdoc.UUCP writes:
> It costs about 80 dollars, I believe, in the States and so I thought that it
> should be 65 pounds or so here. NOT SO. Shock Horror! Upon 'phoning Prentice/
> Hall I find that the cost here is 98 pounds 38 pence!!!
> 
> How do they justify this? Are the cost of tapes/disks that much higher here?
> Did the exchange rate go haywire overnight? Am I being mean and stingy?

No, you are definately NOT being mean and stingy. This is just another
case of profiteering in England. I suggest that you bypass Prentice Hall UK,
get a cheque made out in dollars, or use your credit card, and order it
directly from the US.

Maybe this is a topic Andy would like to discuss with PH ?

I have ordered a copy (from the US), if it arrives with an invoivce for
other than 79 dollars I am going to be UPSET !

NOTE: I have had similar problems with PH before - I was once interested
in getting the sources advertised with "Software Tools in Pascal", PH
wanted some rediculous sum - when I 'phoned and queried it the reply was
something to the effect that they didn't keep stocks of such things, they
had to be imported from the US for each order etc ...
When I asked if they would give me the address of who to contact in the
US so that I could order it directly, and avoid their (exessive) handling
charges, they refused point blank, and said that if I wanted the tape
I had to order it through them. 

I was young and innocent in those days, and just gave up.

Philip