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- From: acs@csri.toronto.edu (Alvin Chia-Hua Shih)
- Subject: Re: Which 80-200mm/f2.8 lens to buy for EOS?
- Message-ID: <1993Jan21.140235.26141@jarvis.csri.toronto.edu>
- References: <1993Jan12.180643.20345@ultb.isc.rit.edu> <1j4rjdINNf5f@cronkite.Central.Sun.COM> <1993Jan15.183133.19914@cbnewsm.cb.att.com> <1jd3rh$665@agate.berkeley.edu> <1993Jan20.094852.21862@sactoh0.sac.ca.us> <1993Jan20.111339.25341@jarvis.csri.toronto.edu> <1993Jan21.093232.12086@sactoh0.sac.ca.us>
- Date: 21 Jan 93 19:02:35 GMT
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- mfolivo@sactoh0.sac.ca.us (Mark Newton-John) writes:
- > acs@csri.toronto.edu (Alvin Chia-Hua Shih) writes:
- >> mfolivo@sactoh0.sac.ca.us (Mark Newton-John) writes:
- >>>I've had a customer order the Canon 80-200 f/2.8 L lens. It took
- >>>about four weeks to get from Canon. I think the price was around
- >>>$1300... By the way, even though the lens was over $1000, she
- >>>bought a 10 year service contract for..... $19.99 (A quirk in our
- >>>system has only two prices- and $19.99 is the one for lenses over
- >>>$250- mostof the lenses we sell are under $500...)
-
- >>>A Hoya (glass, multicoated Skylight) filter, 72mm, $44.99
-
- >>Commercial postings are discouraged on the USENET. Please take
- >>them to a more appropriate forum.
-
- >Whoaaa, who appointed you net.god? This was NOT a commercial
- >posting, I posted this as information for comparison, NOT NOT NOT
- >as an ad to order these things. Some people might want to know a
- >price to base things on, and as a retailer, I do this as a SERVICE
- >to the net.community, NOT as an ad to hook customers. As such, I
- >did not post shipping, handling, tax, or even a phone number or
- >address of my store. Maybe people get more cynical the further
- >east of Yuma you go, or something.
-
- No one appointed me net.god. The USENET has no centralized enforcement
- of the netiquette rules. I know for a fact that if I had not posted,
- someone else would have. Though not blantantly commercial, it is
- borderline at best. I was simply reminding you. If you wish to be
- oversensitive, that's your problem.
-
- Prices hardly constitute hard-to-find information. If they are not
- intended to be displayed for commercial purposes, then they are
- irrelevant and a waste of bandwidth.
-
- ACS
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