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  1. Path: sparky!uunet!dtix!darwin.sura.net!mips!sdd.hp.com!usc!rpi!batcomputer!lynx.msc.cornell.edu!esther.msc.cornell.edu!maynard
  2. From: maynard@esther.msc.cornell.edu (Maynard J. Handley)
  3. Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
  4. Subject: Re: Macs cost too much (NOT!)
  5. Message-ID: <1992Aug18.054315.10238@msc.cornell.edu>
  6. Date: 18 Aug 92 05:43:15 GMT
  7. References: <BsKtBA.A@news.cso.uiuc.edu> <14973@claris.com> <CKD.92Aug17192818@loiosh.eff.org>
  8. Sender: news@msc.cornell.edu
  9. Organization: Cornell-Materials-Science-Center
  10. Lines: 12
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  13. >PC Connection charges $5 shipping per order.
  14. >
  15. >MacConnection charges $3 shipping per order.
  16. >
  17. >If you order mail-order once a month, that's $24 a year :-)
  18.  
  19. And one wonders why this is so. My guess is that PC owners are rather more
  20. likely to ship stuff back, with consequent headaches for *Connection,
  21. because the stuff doesn't work on their systems, or sucks or whatever.
  22.  
  23. Maynard Handley
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