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Subject: Re: Warning: Ruffian 2.0.0 is coming

Author: Thomas Logan

Date: 16:28:09 12/02/03

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On December 02, 2003 at 19:22:12, Slater Wold wrote:

>On December 02, 2003 at 16:10:26, Steve Maughan wrote:
>
>>I initiated one of the threads that Frank refered to.  I must say I am
>>disappointed with Frank's attitude which is basically, "it's not my problem".
>>If it was my company then I'd be extremely interested in selling to the US.  I
>>really do hope that Ruffian 2.0 is a success but I have to say that unless it's
>>significantly stronger than Fritz 9 and Shredder 8 (which I doubt) and which
>>will be available for <$50 in the US, I doubt that there will be many sales to
>>the US.  It's possible that Niggemann's postal prices are based on large
>>dedicated PC - maybe they can bring the postage down to something reasonable
>>like $5.
>>
>>Steve
>
>I agree 100%.
>
>Perhaps it was not his choice to use Niggemann as the distributor.  But as the
>man being charged with 'putting it all together', I would probably guess it was.
>
>I have called Niggemann before.  And they are not especially helpful people, at
>least not to me.  I don't think I will have the gall to call them and tell them
>their shipping prices suck.  I just won't call them at all.

I wrote them a letter regarding shipping prices

I would suggest others do so as well

Maybe if enough of us write something will be done

Tom



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