Date   : Tue, 13 Oct 2009 00:24:29 +0200
From   : rick@... (Rick Murray)
Subject: Re-using floppies

Dave Moore wrote:

> And just in case anybody's interested in putting in an order ...
> In November 2008 Athana quoted me $260 for 500 x 5.25" DSDD (52c each) plus
> $117.00 for UK shipping (totalling $377).

That's not as bad as it seems.

$377 is about ?240 (current exchange rate).
If we divide by 50 to give us a comparable price for a "box of ten", 
it's 20p shy of a fiver.

?5 for 10. [*]

Not so bad. The only sticking point is the order sizes are huge and who 
wants to have 500 discs around in the hope of offloading them?


Best wishes,

Rick.


* - Duty/tax/etc shouldn't add significantly to this.
     For example 20% import duty would make it ?6 for ten...

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