Date: Fri, 24 Mar 2000 09:32:08 -0800 From: Matthew Hunt <mph@astro.caltech.edu> To: John Purser <johnmpurser@home.com> Cc: "'J McKitrick'" <jcm@freebsd-uk.eu.org>, chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: amazon email response Message-ID: <20000324093208.C9572@wopr.caltech.edu> In-Reply-To: <000901bf95ac$e09c0ca0$40390918@vncvr1.wa.home.com>; from johnmpurser@home.com on Fri, Mar 24, 2000 at 08:20:31AM -0800 References: <20000324150922.A89498@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org> <000901bf95ac$e09c0ca0$40390918@vncvr1.wa.home.com>
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On Fri, Mar 24, 2000 at 08:20:31AM -0800, John Purser wrote: > I'm trying to avoid the big guys and I want a good selection, rapid > shipping, and a good web site. In short, Amazon without the patent issue. I recommend fatbrain.com; they have an excellent selection of technical books and a decent (and, it seems to me, expanding) selection of other books. In my experience, the claimed availabilty for an item is accurate. The search engine is a little weak, not having a good idea of "best match". A while back, an officemate and I (at Caltech) both placed our first orders with fatbrain within a day of each other, because they had some sort of promotion and we needed textbooks. Unprovoked, a representative telephoned us and set up a "corporate discount" for Caltech, which got us discounts and free shipping. In my book, that's pretty good service. Of course, they the guy who called did ask whether Caltech wasa 4-year school or some sort of junior college, but I won't hold that against them... They periodically send out good discount offers ($20 off $50 order, that kind of thing). All the email I've gotten from them has been useful to me, so I haven't tried to decline their email. Oh, they sent us free hats, too. -- Matthew Hunt <mph@astro.caltech.edu> * UNIX is a lever for the http://www.pobox.com/~mph/ * intellect. -J.R. Mashey To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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