Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site brl-tgr.ARPA Path: utzoo!linus!philabs!cmcl2!seismo!brl-tgr!wmartin From: wmartin@brl-tgr.ARPA (Will Martin ) Newsgroups: net.music.synth,net.music Subject: Re: Power in numbers! Message-ID: <1572@brl-tgr.ARPA> Date: Wed, 18-Sep-85 13:17:40 EDT Article-I.D.: brl-tgr.1572 Posted: Wed Sep 18 13:17:40 1985 Date-Received: Sat, 21-Sep-85 11:07:34 EDT References: <1089@ulysses.UUCP> Reply-To: wmartin@brl-bmd.UUCP Distribution: net Organization: USAMC ALMSA, St. Louis, MO Lines: 22 Xref: linus net.music.synth:501 net.music:8029 In article <1089@ulysses.UUCP> rmp@ulysses.UUCP (Reuben Prichard) writes: > > This service would have to be used by individuals SERIOUS in purchasing > equipment (not just shopping) and would be a CASH ONLY arrangement. > Money orders or BANK check would be made out to the music store ONLY. > ^^^^ (emphasis in original) If you can't trust the people's checks, you can't trust them in this sort of pool-shopping arrangement. Why the specification of "BANK checks" (meaning certified or cashier's checks) anyway? That just adds a layer of annoyance and hassle and paying extra charges to everyone participating. This is only going to work for people working together or at least in a fairly limited geographic area, anyway, so you should know anyone involved (or at least be a friend of a friend) in such a scheme, which gives a measure of evaluation and control automatically. (This hit a long-standing pet peeve button; I never wrote a bad check in my life, and I expect have my checks so accepted until I demonstrate my evilness by actually writing bad checks. I am perfectly willing to wait for checks to clear when mail-order shopping, also.) Will