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Orchid XP v8 wrote:
> Well, I'm not in retail. I very much doubt the things you're talking
> about are financially significant,
You're complaining about your mom taking up too much room with her stock of
tea, and you don't think grocery stores have the same problem? ;-)
--
Darren New, San Diego CA, USA (PST)
There's no CD like OCD, there's no CD I knoooow!
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On 26-5-2009 22:06, Tim Cook wrote:
> andrel wrote:
>> Can't be a follow up. This is within a day from when it happened
>> (where were you earlier? at work) whereas the guy in the first one
>> already has the check in hand. So either check was by e-mail or he did
>> the same stunt twice with GTE Visa or the order of the events is
>> impossible.
>
> Or they weren't reported/entered in the db in real-time. Neither
> specifies an exact date.
No, but nr 2 ends with 'that sounds damn familiar' which implies that 2
was a conversation after 1 because <crabcakedeathra> is familiar with 1.
At the same time the check indicates that 1 is after 2.
My simple conclusion: at least one is a fake.
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On 26-5-2009 22:47, Darren New wrote:
> Orchid XP v8 wrote:
>> Well, I'm not in retail. I very much doubt the things you're talking
>> about are financially significant,
>
> You're complaining about your mom taking up too much room with her stock
> of tea, and you don't think grocery stores have the same problem? ;-)
>
Not when his mom is around.
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On Tue, 26 May 2009 15:25:25 -0400, clipka wrote:
> Talking about mentally small cheques: Did you hear about the peple who
> got mail that they owed a company $0,00 - and every attempt to settle
> that debt failed, because... well, how'd you pay $0,00 :P
>
> Some guy finally wrote them a letter claiming to have enclosed the $0,00
> in cash ;)
I hadn't heard that one before. :-)
My second publisher cut my first cheque for $1.86; they won't do that
anymore, if it's less than $25, they roll it forward until the
accumulated total is > $25.
(First publisher never actually cut me any cheques after the advance -
the book didn't actually make the advance back).
The $1.86 cheque is in a frame on one of the bookcases here in my
office. :-)
Jim
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Darren New wrote:
> You're complaining about your mom taking up too much room with her stock
> of tea, and you don't think grocery stores have the same problem? ;-)
Grocery stores have facilities for storing enough tea to sink a ship. A
domicile does not. :-P
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"Tim Cook" <z99### [at] gmail com> wrote in message
news:4a1c4fb5$1@news.povray.org...
> As for 10% less vs. extra, let's see if I can come up with a useful
> thought experiment...
>
> Suppose you start out selling pencils for two cents each. As time goes
> by, you find that there are two sorts of customers: one habitually buys
> one or two, and another in large batches that are always even multiples
> of ten. Now, when *you* order them from the factory, it's in batches of
> a thousand. It's more paperwork, hence expense, for you to service the
> single-item buyer. The guy who buys in bulk costs you less money. You
> decide to encourage him to buy more from you by giving his purchase
> habit a discount. Are you charging the singles-buyer are more than
> before?
Of course. The bulk buyer is the least likely of the two customers to change
their buying pattern in response to minor price changes.
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andrel wrote:
> On 26-5-2009 22:06, Tim Cook wrote:
>> andrel wrote:
>>> Can't be a follow up. This is within a day from when it happened
>>> (where were you earlier? at work) whereas the guy in the first one
>>> already has the check in hand. So either check was by e-mail or he did
>>> the same stunt twice with GTE Visa or the order of the events is
>>> impossible.
>>
>> Or they weren't reported/entered in the db in real-time. Neither
>> specifies an exact date.
>
> No, but nr 2 ends with 'that sounds damn familiar' which implies that 2
> was a conversation after 1 because <crabcakedeathra> is familiar with 1.
> At the same time the check indicates that 1 is after 2.
>
> My simple conclusion: at least one is a fake.
Someone read the first quote and decided to try it out.
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andrel wrote:
> On 26-5-2009 22:47, Darren New wrote:
>> Orchid XP v8 wrote:
>>> Well, I'm not in retail. I very much doubt the things you're talking
>>> about are financially significant,
>>
>> You're complaining about your mom taking up too much room with her
>> stock of tea, and you don't think grocery stores have the same
>> problem? ;-)
>>
> Not when his mom is around.
Snap!
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Darren New, San Diego CA, USA (PST)
There's no CD like OCD, there's no CD I knoooow!
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> Sure. But your local Tesco is going to buy (and transport) 12,000 tins of
> beans (or whatever) no matter what, so how many of them *you* buy is
> irrelevant. And yet, if you buy 10 of them, they give you 10% off the
> price. (Or, more accurately, if you buy less than 10 they charge you
> extra.)
Err no, if Tesco are planning to announce a "buy 10 get 10% off" offer, they
will certainly order a lot more beans accordingly. Even though you may
think what you are doing is unique, over the entire shopping population
there exists a very predictable average of how people will react to such
offers. If Tescos couldn't predict that they'd be out of business - and out
of beans :-)
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> Grocery stores have facilities for storing enough tea to sink a ship.
Except they don't, they have the absolute minimum storage to keep the shops
in-stock. Any additional storage is wasted money, not just because of the
building costs, but because the product could be cash instead, earning money
in the bank. Ever heard of Just In Time business?
Where I used to work, even if a truck turned up an hour early to deliver
stuff (which they knew they couldn't, they usually waited in the street) it
sometimes wouldn't even be possible to unload because there would be no
empty slots in the warehouse.
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