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Message no. 1
From: Geoffrey Haacke knight_errant30@*******.com
Subject: [OT] bookstores (was Re: SR Future Products and Such)
Date: Tue, 17 Aug 1999 19:07:08 CST
>
>I asked. Twas a Barnes&Noble. From everything I've heard, they use central
>distribution warehouses....Well, I got this from a salesperson who, I
>admit,
>really wanted to help, "The warehouse in Colts Neck won't stock it. It
>doesn't
>sell in volume enough. We can't order from anywhere but the warehouse."OK.
>This
>salesperson was new, so....Can somebody confirm that for me? Was this
>salesperson on crack, or is it real? I've heard variations on the theme
>EVERY
>time. There are NO other bookstores within even reasonable DRIVING
>distance,
>so...
>

Now that IS wierd. I've heard the B&N could get ANY book. (Much like
Chapters up here in Can.) Hmmm. Well. I'm stumped. Anyone else????


Geoff Haacke
"If you not part of the solution then you are part of the precipitate."
"Never underestimate the power of stupid people in large groups."


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Message no. 2
From: Fanguad fanguad@*******.org
Subject: [OT] bookstores (was Re: SR Future Products and Such)
Date: Wed, 18 Aug 1999 01:21:25 -0400
>>I asked. Twas a Barnes&Noble.
>>"The warehouse in Colts Neck won't stock it."

I've heard the same thing from B&N here in Utah. Apparently they don't stock that
even at their big distribution warehouses (at least that's what the salesman told me)

-Fanguad

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Message no. 3
From: IronRaven cyberraven@********.net
Subject: [OT] bookstores (was Re: SR Future Products and Such)
Date: Wed, 18 Aug 1999 11:09:06 -0400
At 19.07 08-17-99 CST, you wrote:
>Now that IS wierd. I've heard the B&N could get ANY book. (Much like
>Chapters up here in Can.) Hmmm. Well. I'm stumped. Anyone else????

They should be able to.

Heres an idea: Goto B&N's online branch. Find the book you want. Print
out the pricing inforamtion and other stuff that basically says "yes, we,
Barnes and Noble, have copies of this book in our inventory". Take that
print out with you and ask if they can order it for you. If the kid you
talk to says that they can't, ask to talk to the supervisor/manager on
duty. Explain that you are having a hard time understanding why it can be
gotten from the main office, via the internet, but not at the local site,
but if you have to, you will go through the main office and add a small
note concerning your displeasure to the envelope that has the payment in it.
It isn't nice, but I've found that at least half of all "I'm sorry, sir,
but we can't order that" statements are the result of someone who is too
lazy to get the paperwork and/or thinks that $6/hr means that they don't
have actually use thier brain for anything other than hair fertilizer.



Kevin Dole, aka CyberRaven, aka IronRaven, aka Steel Tengu
http://members.xoom.com/iron_raven/
"Once again, we have spat in the face of Death and his second cousin,
Dismemberment."
"There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, than are dreamt of in
your philosophy."
Message no. 4
From: Mark A Shieh SHODAN+@***.EDU
Subject: [OT] bookstores (was Re: SR Future Products and Such)
Date: Wed, 18 Aug 1999 11:29:08 -0400 (EDT)
There's a place I go to sometimes to get supplies for my other
addiction, miniature painting. http://www.crazymage.com lists a bunch
of novels in their inventory, though they don't seem to have updated
recently enough to put the last couple up.
They take Money Orders.

Mark

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