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- From: irving@Happy-Man.com (Irving_Wolfe)
- Subject: Re: Garfinkel/Mahoney Book Update
- Message-ID: <1992Dec15.043256.1376@Happy-Man.com>
- Reply-To: Irving_Wolfe@Happy-Man.com
- Organization: Happy Man Corp., Vashon Island, WA 98070-7399
- References: <1992Dec14.211622.23122@Happy-Man.com>
- Date: Tue, 15 Dec 1992 04:32:56 GMT
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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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