Re: Possible capacitor

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Original poster: "Crow Leader by way of Terry Fritz <twftesla-at-qwest-dot-net>" <tesla-at-lists.symmetric-dot-net>

If you charge more for commodity items than other companies, you are not
helping anybody. you should consider just stopping.

KEN
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Sent: Saturday, August 10, 2002 8:01 AM
Subject: Re: Possible capacitor


> Original poster: "Christopher Boden by way of Terry Fritz
<twftesla-at-qwest-dot-net>" <chrisboden-at-hotmail-dot-com>
>
> Original poster: "Crow Leader by way of Terry Fritz <twftesla-at-qwest-dot-net>"
> <tesla-at-lists.symmetric-dot-net>
>
> luckily any real vendor such as Digi-Key and Richarson sells to anybody.
>
> KEN
>
>
> And I don't, I sell a very few things to a very select group of people.
I'm
> not interested in getting rich selling electronics to hobbiests. I'm
> interested in doing my part to educate and help build a specific niche
> hobby. I have neither the desire nor the time to sell 10,000 caps a week.
I
> have no problem helping the community a bit, and if I can work out deals
for
> caps, magnet wire, carbide, etc to help people, cool.
>
> It's just a part of my job, not a career unto itself. I sell caps for the
> same reason that I volunteer to mentor newbie climbers, because I believe
in
> the sport. I've worked exceedingly hard for many years to teach and better
> the coiling community. I do this because I believe in it. I'm not a
> pro-coiler, I'm not making a living at it. I don't like getting flack
> everytime someone has a sale and they caps are $0.20 cheaper than mine,
> fine, if they have a better deal, do it, but don't email me telling me how
> much I suck because my prices on the one thing I'm selling aren't as good
as
> the price on one product of a supplier that carries 50,000 other things,
> lol. I didn't expect to sell MMCs this long, if the market changes and I
> can't work out a better deal with CD then I'll simply drop them. If
someone
> comes along with a better deal, then I, like Terry before me, will simply
> stop selling them. The only person out here who has a right to give me any
> kind of grief is Terry. He's the only one that's been through the joys of
> having to box, ship and handle thousands of caps. And I have sold more
caps
> in a MONTH that he did all together. It's a 3 person job here, I have half
a
> basement full of various Priority-Mail boxes. I have a 4-drawer file
cabinet
> half full of postal reciepts and orders, and I have a couple hundred
emails
> of people that are thrilled because my caps helped them to make a little
> magic happen. THAT'S why I do it. I get a rush from watching people learn
> things, it's my thing to see (and help) them succeed.
>
> That's why I own The Geek Group.
>
> That's why I help people get caps.
>
> That's why I've given away, over $400,000 in electronics, computers, and
> scientific equipment in the past 6 years (much to members of this list).
>
> That's why the odds are that any coil you look at made in the past year
has
> a set of Geek Group caps in it, if it's of MMC construction the odds are
> overwhelming that they came through these doors.
>
> That's why I've sent several hundred kids home with computers that they've
> built from parts that would have otherwise been filling landfills.
>
> That's why 16 community centers, churches, and assorted other similar
places
> in SW Michigan all have Geek Group Computers.
>
> That's why Jerry and Vern Szudera have a brand new set of computers less
> than a week after their business burned to the Ground (they've been a
> sponsor and close friend for 7 years).
>
> That's why when you sit in one of a dozen planetariums in the US you're
> listening to my voice for an hour (I volunteer to do the voice-over work
> with my own studio for several small planetariums).
>
> Maybe I'm not a "Real" vendor, but as far as me, and 281 of my closest
> friends, I think we're doing just fine.
>
> Direct the flame to //dev/null-at-thegeekgroup-dot-org, I have better things to
do.
>
> Christopher "Duck" Boden Geek#1
> President / C.E.O. / Alpha Geek
> The Geek Group
> www.thegeekgroup-dot-org
> Because the Geek shall inherit the Earth!
>
> "He had that rare weird electricity about him--that
> extremely wild and heavy presence that you only see in
> a person who has abandoned all hope of ever behaving
> normally." --Hunter S. Thompson
>
>