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RE: (ET) Mower blades
- Subject: RE: (ET) Mower blades
- From: "Elie, Larry (L.D.)" <lelie ford com>
- Date: Wed, 22 May 2002 12:41:05 -0400
- Hop-count: 1
- Sender: owner-elec-trak cosmos phy tufts edu
Point well
taken; I bought a 'Power-Rated' 3/8" x33" main drive belt from my local hardware
last night; main drive for an E12. I would have ordered from Bill, but I
needed to run the tractor and didn't want to wait.
Last time I
talked to Bill I asked him to look into 'PayPal'. I don't think it would
cost him anything and I could order RIGHT NOW. Other might want to
encourage him to do so.
Larry
Elie
On Wed, 22 May 2002, "Garry & Terry Freese"
wrote > If we don't buy from Bill, he might go out of business, then what do
> we have? Why does so many people want to buy from everybody else. Very
simple reasons: (1) Never put all of your eggs into one basket. In the computer
biz, this is called "single point of failure". (2) Additional cost & time:
If I buy from a local store, I pick up the product, pay, go home. If I buy from
Bill, I have to make a long distance call, order, send payment somehow, in that
payment also includes an additional cost for shipping, and I have to wait for
the product to arrive. There is a big difference. So, in my book, it is _always_
better to buy locally then to order from a far away source, be it an Internet
company, eBay, or Bill. I have nothing against Bill, but I don't want to be
forced to use him if it costs me more money or more time, and if it means never
finding that alternative source -- if I don't find the alternative source
(preferrably local), than if&when Bill is unavailable* I'm left stranded
with no solution. * note, he could become unavailable for any number of reasons:
vacation, sick, disability, gone out of business, death, etc... -Jeremy <---------------------------->
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