Re: Tropica Catalog (fwd)

[Erik Olson <erik@thekrib.com>]

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Folks, please remember to address your mail to "aga-mcm@thekrib.com". 

  - Erik

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Date: Sat, 17 Jun 2000 17:53:11 -0400
From: Diana Walstad <dwalstad@bellsouth.net>
To: MCM - Digest <owner-aga-mcm-digest@thekrib.com>
Subject: Re: Tropica Catalog

Dear AGAers,
    I have just 48 of the Tropical Catalogs left from the 100 Claus brought to 
us
in March.  They are going at the rate of about 2 per week.  Karen wrote (see 
below)
that Dave G. probably won't be competing with the AGA for selling these books.  
I
ask  that we purchase 100 catalogs from Dave Gomberg.  He's selling them at a
reasonable price ($7 each), which is about what we paid Claus for them.   Please
note that we can't always depend on Claus to hand carry them to us, and we don't
know how available this catalog will be in the future.  Not having the Oriental
catalog to send out has been a problem, and I don't want to be caught short this
time without the Tropica Catalog.  I think that we should take advantage of 
David
G's timely offer.
    Mary, if you don't have (or hear) any objections, would you okay the order, 
so
that David Lass can release the funds?  If you want to have David Lass make the
order, etc that's fine.  (I don't mind contacting Dave G. and taking it from
there.)  Just so somehow they get to me....  :-)
    Thank you.  The books and back issues are selling rather well.  Requests are
coming in almost every day.

Diana



> Diana asked Karen this question:

>  If Dave G. has ordered 1000, I'm really curious to see what
> >he'll be selling the catalog for and how it will compete with the AGA.  I'm
> >pretty sure we can sell 100 more books, but I think this competition factor
> >might
> >be taken into consideration.  I still have about 50 books left, so there's no
> >reason to rush on this.
>
> I asked him that exact question.<g>  He's planning on selling them for $15.
> He doesn't want to undercut AGA... Just give people who might not have
> access to AGA access to the books.  He's more interested in selling them
> wholesale to stores and such.
>
>
> Karen