At 07:55 PM 6/25/2007, Old Volks Home wrote...
>  The "professor" is not the first and will certainly not be the last
> to engage in e-commerce of this type.

And what does it matter? From the customer's perspective, it's all a
"black box." As long as they deliver the product described, when
stated, for the price advertised, what difference does it how they do
fulfillment? They have met their commitment. Do they say somewhere that
they ship everything from their own warehouse?

Do you stock everything you sell? I know that some other VW vendors on
this list use drop shipping for some items.