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Message #00874



To: evandude@yahoo.com, beam@corp.sgi.com
From: Bumper314@aol.com
Date: Tue, 23 Feb 1999 17:41:50 EST
Subject: [alt-beam] Re: I have been noticing...


In a message dated 2/23/99 4:56:54 AM Mountain Standard Time,
evandude@yahoo.com writes:

> hey, about the group buy. If a bunch of us need the same part, we can
> all mail money to one person, and they will order the parts. they can
> just mail each person the parts in envelopes(depending upon how big
> they are) for example, if 5 people pitched in ~$10 each, they could
> get 100 1381 units from digikey, which is 20 per person. regularly
> they are like 83 cents each, but this way they are like 52 cents each.
> this could go for many other parts too...

Well what about solar cells. Is there any other place other then Solarbotics,
or maybe Dave will sell us cells cheap if we buy in 100's?

Steve

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