> >And don't forget to tell him how bad money transfer between
> >the US and Europe is
> It seems most people don't know about the "international postal money
> order," available at your post office, almost anywhere on Earth.
> It's cheaper than cutting a check in another country's funds.
THe cheapest (at least from an european perspective) is still
a direct account to account transfer (and the method of coice
over here ).
> > And to think about the horrible transportation costs -
> Sorry, can't do anything about that... although it sounds like
> an enterprising computer arbitrageur or even an antique dealer
> could make some money by filling a trans-ocean container with
> "rare" European computers, and shipping it to San Francisco,
> and vice-versa.
Not so new, I know at least 2 men who are visiting US fleamarkets/
swap meets and buy tons of junk, fill containers and sell them
again in a simmilar environment over here - I found a nice Patchinko
machine here, that has been used in Seattle before and shipped this
way.
By the way, I still lokk for people interested in Russian PDP
clones - I can send some, but again one is to expensive.
If I had any idea to sell them over in the US, I would like to
do this with european computers. But its hard without storage
and time to sell - I just can't stack them and wait for sale.
And for the cost, a complete 20' container is available for less
than 1800 USD between the West coast and an European port (like
Hamburg) So, I guess, starting from 10 or 12 compurers, this
would be a lot cheaper than surface postage - and more early if
they are heavy weight S100s.
Gruss
H.
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Ich denke, also bin ich, also gut
HRK
Received on Wed Dec 23 1998 - 11:01:08 GMT