You don't like Rob's prices, you don't have to buy from Rob. Vote with your wallet, and so will everyone else.
I wouldn't hold my breath waiting for Robin to go out of business based on your say so, but that's up to you
I have no agenda. I was done with this, a couple days ago. But Lee Valley groupies have kept this alive, calling me a liar, etc. So I'm back. If Spammer Lee and his groupies drop the subject then so will I. I've already proved my point several times over. There is nothing further to add.
I'm not the only one saying 'so', several other posters have risk the wrath of the Lee Valley groupies here by agreeing with me. Mr Lee knows there are plenty more lurking who also agree. He can huff and puff all he likes but there will be changes. Just watch.
Since I was asking you to read and understand simple English, perhaps I am retarded. How about a different tack: Rob Lee said that they have to prepare their catalog in June and so their prices are set before that time (for the dimwitted, let me spell this out: a *single* price is set, and the current exchange rate determines what that price will be in US currency for the rest of the year). You can easily test the truth of this statement by looking up the exchange rate for May of
2004. On May 10, the rate closed at 1.3930. Now simply check a few items on the web catalog in both Canadian and US currency (check them all, if you want). If every item gives the exact same exchange rate, and it's close to 1.393 (give or take a rounding off to the nearest 50 cents or so), then you can finally see that your understanding of what Rob said was completely wrong. If, on the other hand, you find that prices were set lower for American customers back when the catalog went to print, then you will be able to gloat about your superior intellect (but do try the experiment before placing any wagers on the outcome).Since he had already confirmed that their prices were set once for the year, the statement above *clearly* stated that their policy (of holding prices despite fluctuating exchange rates) had not priced them out of the market in either country. Your interpretation is wildly off base.
The fact that Mr. Lee stopped trying to communicate with someone who was demonstrably incapable of reading and comprehending simple English showed that he possesses a good deal of common sense.
Ken Muldrew snipped-for-privacy@ucalgazry.ca (remove all letters after y in the alphabet)
I suspect Mr Lee might now be resorting to veiled threats. I guess I should thank my lucky stars he's such a 'tolerant' guy or I could be in big trouble.:)
Yada yada yada.
Don't favour the troll with a reply. You are entirely wasting your time, and just feeding him more fodder for his idiocy. There is way too much of that already in this newsgroup from people who think it's alright to fart if they say in a loud voice that they are going to.
You're lucky you live in Canada. Psychiatry is covered by health insurance. Take advantage of it.
Cheers, Mike
Tell you what, you keep him and we'll ship you some canned tuna.
-- Jack Novak Buffalo, NY - USA (Remove "SPAM" from email address to reply)
Robert, do you constantly see people in the park looking at you then quickly turning away when you catch them?
Do you see cars in your rear view mirror that OBVIOUSLY are following you?
I am starting to believe that the LV catalogue is in fact a thinly disguised CIA tool to get you to cross the line, and when you do - all the goons will pounce...
If I were you - take all the thinly veiled threats seriously and PISS OFF.
I'm afeared you could deplete every can from every Pig-A-Lee Wig-A-Lee in the nation and it still wouldn't be enough.
But I do hear that Sam's has bigger cans. Anyone have plans for a trebuchet?
UA100
I've already built a few. The idea of a fish-flinging trebuchet _is_ quite tempting. Not tuna, maybe some sort of flatfish. A better wet when they impact.
Forget the fish. Fling the troll.
It'd take one helluva trebuchet for you to hit a target in North America, Andy. Make sure you post photos. :-)
-- Regards, Doug Miller (alphageek-at-milmac-dot-com)
Get a copy of my NEW AND IMPROVED TrollFilter for NewsProxy/Nfilter by sending email to autoresponder at filterinfo-at-milmac-dot-com You must use your REAL email address to get a response.
This may be a dumb@$$ question, but, how come I can't actually see any of Robert's postings? I can only read snippets in responses. I don't think that I have set any filtering.
Have his postings been removed?
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Not a dumb question. For one reason or another (my vote is that he is a coward or ashamed of his statements), Robert sets a flag (the X-NoArchive flag) to yes which states the posters desire to not have the post permanently archived. Google groups honors this request and only stores the posts for a short time. I am not sure about the original groups.google.com, but the new beta seems to store them for a few days.
PK
[-: Mental image of an enormous load of "buckshot" (dried kippers) being flung at the Scots :-]
If he was stunned, it was probably by your amazing lack of common sense. If I was selling tools, I'd charge as much for them as I could, without damaging the reputation of my company or decreasing sales to the point where the higher prices actually cause the company to lose money. Simple Economics. It's Lee Valley, not the salvation army.
And maybe one of those big water-balloon launchers to fling 'em with.
And that is EXACTLY what Mr Lee does, but only to Canadians, American customers get a much better deal.
Rob must be a GWBush fan.:)
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