[Info-vax] What is VMS?

[Bob Eager]

On Sun, 25 Dec 2011 07:14:00 -0800, seasoned_geek wrote:

> On Dec 21, 5:16 pm, Bob Eager <news0... at eager.cx> 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).
>>
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>>  http://www.mirrorservice.org
>>
>> *lightning protection* - a w_tom conductor
> 
> But you can blame Amazon for soooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo many
> federal and international crimes.

Loud personal axe grinding sounds...

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