From owner-freebsd-announce Wed Jun 19 18:08:40 1996 Return-Path: owner-freebsd-announce Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id SAA07133 for freebsd-announce-outgoing; Wed, 19 Jun 1996 18:08:40 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from jmb@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id SAA07126; Wed, 19 Jun 1996 18:08:39 -0700 (PDT) From: "Jonathan M. Bresler" Message-Id: <199606200108.SAA07126@freefall.freebsd.org> Subject: BSD daemon Plushies To: freebsd-announce Date: Wed, 19 Jun 1996 18:08:39 -0700 (PDT) Cc: freebsd-chat Reply-To: X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24] Content-Type: text Sender: owner-freebsd-announce@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Hi everybody! Well, now, after several struggles, delays, price ``corrections'' etc., i'm now happy to announce you the availability of the Daemon Plushies. The lovely little BSD daemon is available as a stuffed plushie. As always :), it costs more than what we initially hoped. Despite of keeping the sales margin for all parties fairly low (after all, we started the project since we were interested in the stuffed daemon, not to make money as the first goal), it's still fairly pricey since it's an all hand-made devil that comes to you. The benefit is that everybody who saw him by now loved him from the first minute, and nobody had any doubt that this must be The BSD Daemon. Ok, i'm only a small part of the game, the actual shipping and organization is in the hands of a small German company, Liebscher & Partner. They've got a (very short) Web reference under http://www.tu-chemnitz.de/firmen/liebscher.html for those who are interested. I'm sending all the info below on behalf of Ingo Liebscher. He can be reached: email: LiebscherCo@t-online.de phone: +49-3731-781 386 fax: +49-3731-781 387 He's prepared to take orders via email, but please be gentle: his English knowledge is not quite as well as mine. ;-) The price, including shipping & handling, will be: Germany DEM 56,- ~ 3 weeks other Europe DEM 63,- overseas USD 50,- cheapest mail, ~ 5 weeks + USD 30,- air mail Please negotiate bulk orders before; in particular for overseas orders, they might become cheaper. Liebscher & Partner is accepting the following credit cards: - VISA Card - Diners Club - Euro Card - Master Card In addition, Euroschecks are accepted up to DEM 400 total. The gain is already fairly low, so only prepaid orders are acceptable. (Of course, cash is also acceptable. :) For credit card orders, the following must be sent to him: first name, last name, card number, validity (starts / expires) country -- J"org Wunsch Unix support engineer joerg_wunsch@interface-business.de http://www.interface-business.de/~j From owner-freebsd-announce Wed Jun 19 23:58:56 1996 Return-Path: owner-freebsd-announce Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id XAA21946 for freebsd-announce-outgoing; Wed, 19 Jun 1996 23:58:56 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from joerg@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id XAA21940; Wed, 19 Jun 1996 23:58:54 -0700 (PDT) Date: Wed, 19 Jun 1996 23:58:54 -0700 (PDT) From: Joerg Wunsch Message-Id: <199606200658.XAA21940@freefall.freebsd.org> To: freebsd-announce, freebsd-chat Subject: The Daemon Plushies again Sender: owner-freebsd-announce@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Hi all, many people are asking me for pictures of the plushie. Sorry to say, by now (until the first batch has been produced, which will only by the time when the first at leat 50 orders arrived at Ingo) only a single sample does exist, and this one is sitting somewhere on a desk at Walnut Creek. So Jordan promised to get some pictures, and publish them somewhere at www.freebsd.org. When you see them, please keep in mind that this was the final sample, a few minor nits came up and will be resolved in the final version. Walnut Creek is _not_ going to handle bulk orders theirselves. As i wrote, there's not much gain to make out of them (they are really that expensive in production!), thus yet another oranization handling them was deemed to cost more than shipping them directly from Europe. Of course, if somebody volunteers to negotiate a bulk order with Ingo for no extra charge, he is free to do this. Lastly, please do _not_ ask _me_ anything regarding orders, prices, shipping etc. I don't have them, i don't do it. It's all up to Ingo Liebscher, as i wrote in the announcement. Contact him at LiebscherCo@t-online.de for all question regarding the actual deal. thank you, Jörg p.s.: Please do understand that i won't answer each single question about the availability of pictures -- it wouldn't be any more inform- ation than the above.