Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!lll-winken!lll-tis!helios.ee.lbl.gov!nosc!ucsd!brain!akkana From: akkana@brain.ucsd.edu (Akkana) Newsgroups: comp.org.usenix Subject: Re: WARN users of caffeine pills, codeine-based headache remedies Keywords: $1200 stratocaster Message-ID: <1009@ucsd.EDU> Date: 28 Jun 88 23:10:55 GMT References: <88Jun16.184430edt.20815@sq.sq.com> <747@applga.UUCP> <781@houxv.UUCP> Sender: nobody@ucsd.EDU Reply-To: akkana@brain.UCSD.EDU (Akkana) Organization: LOBDTM, U.C. San Diego Lines: 19 In article <781@houxv.UUCP> rs2@houxv.UUCP (R.SWITZER) writes: >A few years back, I had an acquaintance who routinely used to drop by >HIS friends' music shop with orders for equipment and went and visited >Canadien relatives and friends with "gifts". An example of why is that >a stratocaster (yeah, I know, who wants them anyway:-) which cost around >$US600 here, cost about $US1200 there! My acquaintance did not charge >his friends and relatives the $US1200. He used to go North through one >border entrance and come home a different way. To my knowledge he never >got caught (although I personally believe he deserved to get caught). [ I know this isn't the right group for this, but hey, there probably won't be much traffic on this group for the next few months ...] What's so bad about this? Why did he "deserve to get caught"? Where would the extra $600 be going had they bought the guitar in Canada? It sounds like you wouldn't be as bothered by this if your acquaintance *had* charged the Canadians the extra $600 -- why? Puzzled, ...Akkana