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Subject: Re: Thanks for info, Sarah!.

Author: Chessfun

Date: 21:07:24 08/09/00

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On August 09, 2000 at 23:46:41, Eelco de Groot wrote:

>I was kinda hoping that you would have the link somewhere. I believe I saw the
>Chess 'n Math organization first on your homepage but couldn't find the link
>just now anymore. It is a pity that Chess Assistant is so expensive. Not to be
>confused with Chess Academy http://www.chessacademy.de/ which site I went to a
>couple of days ago. I believe I read it has Goliath now as a chess-engine? The
>teaching features seem to be Chess Academy's strong point, not a professional
>database.
>
>Eelco


To be totally honest I was'nt sure which had Tiger, I asked specifically
for Rebel Tiger the guy in the store was new, never seen him before and
he did'nt know much about chess software so I kinda went behind the counter.

Then I saw it but it was in French, I was'nt sure if it was Chess Assistant,
as I was'nt paying much attention since it was French. I said a week ago, now
I think about it, it was probably three weeks as at that time I was looking at
downloading CA and the Tiger eng and posted something like that here.

They had less chess software there than I have seen there in a long long time.
Peter could naturally try email but believe me he can get it much cheaper in the
US even at $1.50 exchange. I only buy there when I want something really bad.

I have in the past bought Rebel products from them....Rebel 10 I got there,
and typically if they don't have whatever you want they would say "hold on
I'll call the Montreal office" as they normally stock more....but as I said
the guy was new would'nt surprise me if he did'nt know they had a Montreal
Office.

Whenever in the past I have ordered software from the US it just comes regular
surface mail. I live in a house and in newer sub division in Greater Toronto,
they have the big mail boxes that you pick up mail from. The software usually
comes in like an envelope so is just a little bigger than regular mail size.
Maybe that's the problem, wherever he is trying to buy it are shipping the box
with it LOL.

Anyway to cut a long story as short as possible. The ONLY time I was ever
charged duty (GST) on anything I bought south of the border was about 10 years
ago I bought a chess computer, it had a sensory board don't remember what it
was but I had to go to the post office to pick it up (size?) and had to pay
duty. But now 10 years later with GST and duties coming off of almost all
products I doubt that duty on something like this even exists.

If it does don't tell Revenue Canada on me :-)

Thanks.



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