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Message no. 1
From: Bolton Sara <Sara.bolton@****.BE>
Subject: [OT]"Lotus Noir" (bad) news.
Date: Thu, 3 Sep 1998 12:29:17 +0200
Lots of peoples have been asking me if I can get them a "Lotus Noir"
magazine in the case the "Maria Mercurial" promo card would only be aivable
in it.
Well, it is possible, but I don't know if i will do it because it will cost
a lot of money :the price of the LN is 7.5$, add 5$ P&P (minimum, for normal
slow mail and WITHOUT ANY GARANTEE !!!!) this is already 12.5$ and you still
have to add the "tax" you'll have to pay for sending international money
order (nearly 10$ here!!!!)

But the most i think about it, the most I am sure of that:
"Lotus Noir" is aivable only in a few country, that mean there is less LN
printed than the other magazines witch have promo cards, so LN will
logically get less cards than the other.
That mean, if FASA print the same number of them, there should be a lot left
( and a SASE to FASA will not cost you all that money.)

For those who'd like to know, here are the country in wich LN must be
aivable (at least in the french speaking part of those countries.)

-France
-belgium
-Switzerland
-Canada
-reunion/antilles/guyanne
-Tahiti/ new Caledonia
-Luxembourg

Read you later
Vincent"lost again"Schmitt.
Message no. 2
From: Apone <mpcheval@********.FR>
Subject: Re: [OT]"Lotus Noir" (bad) news.
Date: Thu, 3 Sep 1998 13:52:05 +0200
Bolton Sara wrote:

> Lots of peoples have been asking me if I can get them a "Lotus Noir"
> magazine in the case the "Maria Mercurial" promo card would only be aivable
> in it.
> Well, it is possible, but I don't know if i will do it because it will cost
> a lot of money :the price of the LN is 7.5$, add 5$ P&P (minimum, for normal
> slow mail and WITHOUT ANY GARANTEE !!!!) this is already 12.5$ and you still
> have to add the "tax" you'll have to pay for sending international money
> order (nearly 10$ here!!!!)

Hum, all that seems a bit overated.
Here in France, Lotus Noir cost 35 francs which makes about 6$.
Then if the thing which interests you is the promo card, there's no need to send
the magazine. Just sending the card will cost 4,20 francs which makes 0,7$.
So that's a 7$ cost for a promo card, not so a big deal.
As Maria Mercurial may be Unique, all I will need is one copy of it. So if some
of you are interested I could buy the cards for them.

Hoewer, I find suspicious the idea of Mercurial beeing a "french" promo only
available in LN.
So, at least some of you've got some tips from the inside saying the opposite, I
think you should not worry about the avaibility of that card.

DISCLAIMER : We are talking of an hypothetical future. The card is not available
by now.

so long
Apone

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So my old evil spirit can catch a Greyhound bus n'ride."
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Message no. 3
From: Bolton Sara <Sara.bolton@****.BE>
Subject: Re: [OT]"Lotus Noir" (bad) news.
Date: Thu, 3 Sep 1998 17:01:03 +0200
> Hum, all that seems a bit overated.
>Here in France, Lotus Noir cost 35 francs which makes about 6$.
>Then if the thing which interests you is the promo card, there's no need to
send the magazine. Just sending the card will cost 4,20 francs which makes 0,7$.
>So that's a 7$ cost for a promo card, not so a big deal.

The "lotus Noir" cost is higher here (245 FB), and I was thinking of sending
the card alone because, as the card is suppoed to be free with the magazine,
that could have been considered as a commercial action.

>As Maria Mercurial may be Unique, all I will need is one copy of it. So if some
>of you are interested I could buy the cards for them.

She is unique, there is a scan of the card on Loki's webpage.
>Hoewer, I find suspicious the idea of Mercurial beeing a "french" promo only
>available in LN.

As far as i have heard, there can be a problem with censor (the art of the
has the body too much exposed? Seems these guys have never seen the
"baywatch" serie!!!)
>So, at least some of you've got some tips from the inside saying the
opposite, I think you should not worry about the avaibility of that card.
>
>DISCLAIMER : We are talking of an hypothetical future. The card is not
available by now.

Vincent"lost again"Schmitt.

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