lphillips@lpami.wimsey.bc.ca (Larry Phillips) (11/20/89)
In <8911201830.AA02886@libra.tau.ac.il>, iddos@TAURUS.BITNET writes: >On top of that, their INVOICE was sloppy, and in a country where >the customs charge is up to 85% on software, urgh! What?? Software coming into Canada is duty-free, and possibly federal sales tax free as well. I have ONLY ever been charged for media and manuals (the manuals only once). -larry -- My name is OS/2, Mandius, Kludge of Kludges. Look upon my works, ye CS majors, and gag. +-----------------------------------------------------------------------+ | // Larry Phillips | | \X/ lphillips@lpami.wimsey.bc.ca -or- uunet!van-bc!lpami!lphillips | | COMPUSERVE: 76703,4322 -or- 76703.4322@compuserve.com | +-----------------------------------------------------------------------+
iddos@TAURUS.BITNET (11/21/89)
Recently Magellan ("expert system maker") was mentioned in this
group.
I saw Magellan by Emerald Intelligence advertised in February.
Since then I ordered (and paid in advance) $179 for their Magellan
AND the communication modules (without which, I have no need for AI).
Since then months passed. Nothing. Then in October (!) I got a message
from the customs here that something has arrived for me. In the parcel
there was, sitting next to MAGELLAN, not the long-awaited MODULES, but
a letter (dated AUGUST) from Emerald, REGRETTING THAT AS FOR NOW THE
MODULES ARE NOT AVAILABLE, please wait 30 days (Now it's 90 days since
that was written).
On top of that, their INVOICE was sloppy, and in a country where
the customs charge is up to 85% on software, urgh!
Call it VAPOURWARE if you like, I call it PIRACY.
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In <8911291546.AA06966@libra.tau.ac.il>, iddos@TAURUS.BITNET writes: >In article <815@lpami.wimsey.bc.ca> lphillips@lpami.wimsey.bc.ca (Larry Phillips >>In <8911201830.AA02886@libra.tau.ac.il>, iddos@TAURUS.BITNET writes: >>>On top of that, their INVOICE was sloppy, and in a country where >>>the customs charge is up to 85% on software, urgh! >> >>What?? Software coming into Canada is duty-free, and possibly federal sales >>tax free as well. I have ONLY ever been charged for media and manuals (the >>manuals only once). >> > >Uhh, my site is located at Tel-Aviv, Israel, 3rd world. The state I'm >located in, and especially the customs, do not recognize 'software', >only 'media'(what you don't recognize cannot harm you). >It makes no difference if the media is $80 per diskette. ooops! I could have sworn that message I replied to was from someone in Ontario. Sorry about that. -larry -- " All I ask of my body is that it carry around my head." - Thomas Alva Edison - +-----------------------------------------------------------------------+ | // Larry Phillips | | \X/ lphillips@lpami.wimsey.bc.ca -or- uunet!van-bc!lpami!lphillips | | COMPUSERVE: 76703,4322 -or- 76703.4322@compuserve.com | +-----------------------------------------------------------------------+
iddos@TAURUS.BITNET (11/29/89)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga Subject: Re: AI on the Amiga (Magellan) Summary: Expires: References: <815@lpami.wimsey.bc.ca> Sender: Reply-To: iddos@libra.UUCP (Iddo Ilan) Followup-To: Distribution: Organization: Tel-Aviv Univesity Math and CS school, Israel Keywords: In article <815@lpami.wimsey.bc.ca> lphillips@lpami.wimsey.bc.ca (Larry Phillips >In <8911201830.AA02886@libra.tau.ac.il>, iddos@TAURUS.BITNET writes: >>On top of that, their INVOICE was sloppy, and in a country where >>the customs charge is up to 85% on software, urgh! > >What?? Software coming into Canada is duty-free, and possibly federal sales >tax free as well. I have ONLY ever been charged for media and manuals (the >manuals only once). > Uhh, my site is located at Tel-Aviv, Israel, 3rd world. The state I'm located in, and especially the customs, do not recognize 'software', only 'media'(what you don't recognize cannot harm you). It makes no difference if the media is $80 per diskette. We are used to all this, only Magellan messed up things further by sending an invoice that gives the impression the whole set is in the pack, and the taxman wants his share accordingly. But never worry, many of us escape. You say in Canada better? +-----------------------------------------------------------------------+ | Ido (The Id) Amin iddos@taurus.BITNET | | | +---------- Is the virtual memory of a unicorn a physical device? ------+