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From: Steve Bernacki <steve@ziplink.net>
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: FreeBSD demon softtoy
Date: 23 Dec 1996 18:37:42 GMT
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All we need to do is create a "tickle-me-daemon" craze in the states and
they'll be producing millions of the things... :)
-S
J Wunsch <j@uriah.heep.sax.de> wrote:
: dan@beach.net (Dan Busarow) wrote:
: > I sent my order in via e-mail to
: >
: > LiebscherCo@t-online.de
: >
: > and requested one BSD Daemon Plushie.
: >
: > The price, including shipping & handling, was USD 50 for
: > cheapest (5 weeks) shipping method. You may want to send
: > e-mail to verify costs first.
: To the best of my knowledge, their prices haven't changed. However,
: the entire batch is fairly low-volume (if you've got one, i think it's
: safe to claim that there are at most 150 another of these animals
: around on the world), so shipping times are often fairly long. Ingo
: Liebscher cannot order them in batches of less than 50 at the
: manufacturer, so he must accumulate orders.
: (Disclaimer: i'm unrelated to Liebscher&Co, other than that i've
: initiated the daemon toy story there.)
: --
: cheers, J"org
: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE
: Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)
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