Re: MCM - Digest V1 #129

[Neil Frank <nfrank@mindspring.com>]

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>Date: Wed, 4 Aug 1999 08:54:24 -0400
>From: "Robert P. Cashin" <rcashin@juno.com>
>Subject: Re: MCM - Digest V1 #128
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>Hi All,
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>       Regarding plant sales, I'd like to hear Dave Lass' opinion.  He is the
>one who volunteered to run the committee and a lot depends on how much
>time and work he is willing to put into it.
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I can have David respond directly, but he impressed me with his management
abilities. While I spent the weekend with him, he enlisted the help of a
local grad student who is also a friend. His tentative plan follows. The
only big issue is tax status.

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We would have an order form that would be on the AGA web site and also in
TAG. The form would list the plants that we have/can get, their prices, and
the other aspects of the deal. I think that we should have a closing date
for each, say the 15th of the month. Any orders received by then would be
shipped that month -- any after that date would go to the next month.
Depending on the volume we get we could do it every other month.
ONE THING -- Do you think that FAN could package each order separately. It
would make it much easier on this side, and I'm not sure it would be all
that much more work for them. If it is too much work, then maybe we could
pay them a little more. That way the plants get handled even less -- FAN
packs each order separately, puts them in one box and ships them to me. I
would then be able to simply take each order, do whatever is needed, and
send them on to the orderers.
Can you ask FAN, or hand me off to whomever I would be dealing with there.
The one thing I cannot do is the paperwork for sales tax etc. Can't we get
around this simply by not collecting any sales tax???
Can you get me the list of plants from FAN so I can begin to make up the
database.
As for how much AGA makes we can cover the cost of shipping from FAN to me
by figuring out how much it cost and simply adding it to the individual
plant cost. Over this I think we should add something like 15% with a
minimum of $3 -- $5
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