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From: tif@cpe.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.sys.tandy
Subject: Re: Old peripherals (DVI)
Message-ID: <2600013@cpe>
Date: 12 Oct 88 19:47:00 GMT
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Written 12:48 pm  Oct 10, 1988 by cbnews.UUCP!mdk in cpe:comp.sys.tandy
>In article <193300077@trsvax> craig@trsvax.UUCP writes:
>>The salesman I spoke with said  they would
>>be more than happy to ship them to customers.  I don't know what shipping
>>will cost you.
>It shouldn't cost anything for Mark to get it shipped to him.  All Tandy
>stores pay a monthly fee for UPS service, no matter how much they ship per
>month.  This fee goes into a central pool and pays for the shipping for ALL
>the Tandy stores in the United States.  So the store shouldn't charge a
>shipping fee.

Hmmm, I can't come up with a counter argument but that argument isn't valid.
It is "right" for them to recoup that "monthly fee" from the customers that
use the service even if the charge is not directly related to the cost.

Just because I pay a fixed cost for a service doesn't mean it's "wrong"
to pass the cost on to my customers that make use of the service.  In
fact, I am sure that any company doing this sort of "sub-service" is
not only recouping their cost but making a profit from it.

How about ... CBS wanting ~$3 to ship you a $.01 compact disc?

P.S.	Do the stores really do that?  I am obviously an uninformed
	source and I'd disclaim further but the above was pure opinion.

			Paul Chamberlain
			Computer Product Engineering, Tandy Corp.
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