Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site topaz.ARPA Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!cbosgd!cbdkc1!desoto!packard!topaz!@RUTGERS.ARPA:zeus@AEROSPACE.ARPA From: @RUTGERS.ARPA:zeus@AEROSPACE.ARPA Newsgroups: net.sf-lovers Subject: SF Book Club Message-ID: <867@topaz.ARPA> Date: Mon, 4-Mar-85 16:04:07 EST Article-I.D.: topaz.867 Posted: Mon Mar 4 16:04:07 1985 Date-Received: Tue, 5-Mar-85 03:00:43 EST Sender: daemon@topaz.ARPA Organization: Rutgers Univ., New Brunswick, N.J. Lines: 25 From: Dave SuessI have seen two kinds of postings on the SF Book Club in the many that I've seen lately: 1. poster is quitting, books now cost too much. 2. poster is active, but continuously re-joins so as to obtain offer designed to attract new members. I'm in a third category (long-time member, sad that prices are going up but intending to remain a member) and was wondering if *everyone* else is in the other two. If so, I can extrapolate that I, too, will someday be driven out; I'd hate that, since the postage on the reply forms is well worth the bargain I pick up (admittedly mostly on older titles) a few times a year. I enjoy even a mediocre-quality hardback much more than the smaller, can't-prop-up paperback. Am I the only "chump" in my category? Dave Suess zeus@aerospace.ARPA Anecdote: Once (I haven't checked lately) I even wrote in to ask if it were OK to *overpay* my balance, expecting to order more shortly. The SFBC wrote back to say if I kept a credit balance (and it was very low - $10, I think), I could get a 10% discount on orders. I did, and continued for quite a while before getting too busy -- and I assume that this service no longer exists, considering the not-so-slow rise in prices.