Date   : Tue, 03 Aug 1999 22:44:09 +0000
From   : Chris Richardson <chris@...>
Subject: Re: Free BBC's

Woah!

Crispin Boylan wrote:
> 
> Hi
> I have a friend who has managed to obtain about 60 model b's from a
> school.
> He has them on one proviso - they must not be sold on for a profit.
> So, he's giving them away for the price of postage.....if anyone wants
> one then please mail me.
> There has to be a limit of one per person and the same proviso applies -
> no selling on for a profit of any kind (sorry Chris).

I gotter answer that one!

I do not make a profit on the prices I charge.

It is not a simple case of supplying a dusty, hammered unchecked, wobbly
BBC. It is a case of giving someone a lovely clean bit of reliable kit
that will last, plus a guarantee (albeit unwritten) that if it fizzles
out, the person that sold you it is going to do something about it
immediately.

Anyone in business would realise that, at the prices I charge, you can't
do what I do and make money. 

Oddly enough, I recently turned down an offer of 60 BBC's because I had
nowhere to stash them, I wonder if this is the same place?

Sorry to witter to you lot but that hit a nerve

Chris

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