Hi Doug and all,

I'm currently off the list.  Too much other stuff to do :-(  Please keep my
pmail address on your replies.

For the AirLift group purchase I collected the money up front in form of
personal checks, money orders, PayPal and PayDirect payments.  PayPal turned
out to be a real looser since they now have a limit on how much money you
can receive from credit card payments (only $500).  I also collected
everybody's shipping address (not as easy as it sounds).  All information
was collected on a spread sheet (last name, first name email address, phone
number, street, city, country, number of kit 1 ordered, number of kit 2
ordered, $$ paid, payment type).  This spread sheet together with a big
check went to AirLift.  They shipped all orders from their warehouses
(except for overseas orders which I will ship via USPS).  They have a
warehouse in Canada also.  This makes it easy for them to fulfill the
Canadian orders.  All in all I ordered 72 kits from AirLift and had over 100
inquiries.

Hope this answers your questions.  Let me know if there's anything else.

Peter

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Doug Alcock [mailto:dgalcock@hewitt.com]
> Sent: Wednesday, January 31, 2001 10:14 AM
> To: EVEHART33@AOL.COM
> Cc: Buettner, Peter; vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com
> Subject: Re: Berg short shift kit group purchase?
>
>
>
>
> >Berg will give us 15% off their $31 price bringing our cost
> to $25.46 each
> >plus the shipping and reshipping for a minimum order of 5
> units. I don't have
> >the funds to front a group purchase but if a more
> "financially positioned"
> >member wants to organize it, I think we have enough
> interest. Anyone up for
> >it?
> >
> >Ken Hunter
> >82 Westy 1.9D
> >84 Jetta 1.5D
>
> I'm interested and there are two other Canadians as well.
> Peter Buettner just
> finished organising the Airlift group purchase and perhaps we
> can ask his
> opinion on how to go about this.I have a couple of thoughts
> (though god knows
> they're lonely).
>
> 1) In the Airlift purchase. Airlift handled the shipping from
> their end.
> Hopefully Berg would do this as well. It seems like a huge
> task to saddle one
> list member with --- receiving and re-directing x number of
> short shift kits.
> Airlift also got enough orders to absorb the shipping costs
> (to US and Canada)
> themselves. Hopefully, if we get enough orders Berg would do
> this --- maybe even
> drop their price further. Since you (Ken) got a reply out of
> Berg --- I tried
> but they didn't respond ---- maybe you'd be willing to enquire further
>
> 2) With the Airlift purchase, Peter collected the money ---
> he didn't front the
> purchase. So we don't need a Daddy Warbucks here. We need
> someone willing to
> collect and hold the cash and then remit it en masse to Berg
> along with the
> order list. The whole question of exchange rate and lack of
> Paypal for Canada
> precludes me from doing this.
>
> 3) I am willing to set up a web form to collect order data
> and to take care of
> that end of things.
>
> 4) One more question for Peter. How many Airlift kits were
> purchased?? ---- this
> would probably be a good number to quote at Berg.
>
> What do y'all think??
>
> Cheers,
> Doug Alcock
> '84 Westy
> Toronto, Canada
>
>
>
>
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