RE: Berg short shift kit group purchase?Just a quick note to the list...

Peter has done a great job with this purchase (collecting money, addresses, keeping us up to date, etc). Just wanted to say "Thanks". ;-)

Don Preston
'87 Wolfy GL
~Betsy the Mp3 Bus~
  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Buettner, Peter 
  To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM 
  Sent: Wednesday, January 31, 2001 10:42 AM
  Subject: Re: Berg short shift kit group purchase?

  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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