Subj : Re: Price Piece in your c
To   : vorlon
From : ACMEBBS
Date : Wed May 25 2022 22:43:00

-=> On Thu May 26 11:38:00 2022, vorlon wrote to ACMEBBS <=-

 >  > hehehe... Yep had that happen as well, and also get busy with
 >  > work and next thing the auction has ended....
 >  AC> In my case...ended up taking a nap & about dinner time...the palm
 >  AC> went to the forehead. Found out after this the auction was over.
 > 
 > But sleep is a good thing. (tm) #-;

Ahhhh...you know the drill...when we're dead...we can sleep. ;)

 >  > I've sent things
 >  > to the USA and the shipping was only $20-30 AUD, yet the other
 >  > way it was more like $100+.
 >  AC> The thing which burns me up about Ebay are the low prices...until
 >  AC> you look at the shipping cost. They're doing that to get
 > It's not just ebay....Mouser etc... I wanted some resister packs for
 > terminating the scsi on the A3000. The shipping was $34 for a total
 > item price of $4...Luckly Spectre came to the rescue with some.

Amazon is probably just as bad. Have gotten books/stuff which cost around $2 US for USPS...while their stock cost at Amazon was $3.99 US.

 >  > But late on a friday night at 9:30pm-10pm, just finished work
 >  > and can't be stuffed cokking something... #-)
 >  AC> Get home around
 >  AC> 11:15 PM at night...starving & if I have leftovers...great. If
 >  AC> not...what's the easiest thing I can make to watch TV/play video
 >  AC> games on the Xbox.
 > The local pizza shop I go to, has gotten to know me that the regular
 > staff don't even have to ask me what I want.  I joked one night to one of
 > them that I'll order something different one day just to throw them off.
 > #_)

Even better...wear a fake pair of glasses/mustasche in to see what happens.

.... The 4 food groups: Fast, frozen, instant and microwaved. 

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