[Info-vax] What is VMS?

[ChrisQ]

On 12/21/11 23:16, Bob Eager wrote:
> On Wed, 21 Dec 2011 22:14:47 +0000, ChrisQ wrote:
>
>> Sorry to quibble, but do you work for them or something ?. Have heard
>> several
>> stories about amazon recently, none of them complementary. Their book
>> prices
>> are no bargain anymore and someone else who ordered memory from them
>> found the
>> price doubled on receipt.
>
> I don't work for them. I buy quite a lot from them (although it's
> amazon.co.uk). Never bought memory from them; I use Crucial. But I've
> bought loads of different stuff, and when I have had a problem they've
> always dealt with it quickly and well.
>
> I still find that, in the UK at least, they are usually the cheapest for
> books.
>
> In have occasionally bought stuff that hasn't been immediately avalable
> (e.g. a pre-order) and I have had the price *reduced* on delivery.
>
> My real beef back there is that I don't think it's fair to blame Amazon
> if a third party is selling something for an inflated price. It happs -
> as it does, for example, on eBay (now there's a company I really do hate).
>

I guess with any large company, there will be the occasional horror story,
but every time i've looked at amazon recently, I have always found a 
better price
elsewhere. Different strokes etc - I use ebay all the time and it's the 
first
place I look for all kinds of things. As for books, have used abe books, 
which
is a cooperative of booksellers, for years, but hear that they save been 
bought
out by amazon and bookseller fees have gone through the roof. Yet 
another nice
little operation, ticking along well, providing value for money services,
succumbs to the greed of big business.

For reference: http://www.abebooks.com

No flashy front end or bulls**T, just the tools to find what you want...

Regards,

Chris