Klarinet Archive - Posting 000229.txt from 1995/11

From: Randolf Keller <rkeller@-----.COM>
Subj: Re: AOIS Approved News Release: World's *Cheapest* Way to get
Date: Sun, 12 Nov 1995 05:32:04 -0500

I thought this was a mere musician's network with related issues. Is it
anyhow avoidable to have advertisments like this within this forum? I
believe there are other locations to place such mails. As for myself, I
receive such trash through other lists as well, and it can be really
annoying to waste time and space for it.

Randolf

>-----> NOTE: Please first read my note which appears below the "Request
>for more info Form." Then, to get more info, just fill out the "Request
>for More Info" form completely and email it back to the company. To make
>it easier for you to reply, I have put their address in the "Reply-To"
>field, which means you can just use your email software to reply to this
>message in order to get that address to pop-up in your "To:" field. <-----
>
>
>*------------cut here-----------------------------------------------*
>REQUEST FOR MORE INFO: please return *only* this section only via
>internet email to:
>
>FREE-magazine-subscription-offer@-----.int
>
>Sorry, but incomplete forms *will not* be acknowledged. If you do not
>have an email address, or access to one, they will not be able to help you
>until you do have one. If you saw this message, then you should have one. :)
>
>Name:
>Internet email address:
>Smail home address:
>City-State-Zip:
>Country:
>Work Tel. #:
>Work Fax #:
>Home Tel. #:
>Home Fax #:
>
>How did you hear about us (name of person who referred you or the area of
>the internet that you saw us mentioned in): Referral by Yoshio Koseki.
>111195-l
>
>Name of USA mags you currently get on the newstand or in the store:
>
>Name of USA mags you currently get on the newstand or in the store:
>
>Name of USA mags you currently get on a subscription basis, through the mail:
>
>Name of USA mags you would like price quotes on when we call you:
>
>Catalogue format desired (list "1," "2," "3" or "4"):
>
>*------------cut here-----------------------------------------------*
>
>
>Catalogue Options:
>1. 19-Part email- can be read by EVERYONE (~525 K Total).
>2. For more advanced computer users: attached text file ~525K - you
> must know how to download an attached text file and then be able to
> open it with your word processor. If in doubt, don't ask for this
> version. This isn't for internet *newbies.* Better to order option 1
> and spend a few minutes pasting them into one whole text document
> with your word processor, than to waste hours trying to figure how
> to deal with this option.
>3. For more advanced Macintosh computer users: compressed attached
> text file, created with a Stuffit(tm) self-extracting archive (.sea),
> ~133K. Can be decompressed by any Macintosh computer user; no
> special expansion software or knowledge of Stuffit (tm) needed. You
> just double-click on the file icon and it automatically expands
> (unstuffs). This is for more advanced mac computer users only, as
> you still have to know how to deal with an attached file. It will cut
> your download time by 75%. Expands out to the same ~525K file in
> option #2. See option #2 for more info on what you will need to be
> able to do.
>4. For expert computer users: compressed attached text file, created with
> Stuffit(tm), ~114K. Can be decompressed by any computer user who
> has expansion software to decompress (expand) Stuffit(tm) (.sit) files.
> This is for more advanced computer users only and will cut your
> download time by 78%. Expands out to the same ~525K file in option
> #2. See option #2 for more info on what you will need to be able to do.
>
>
>Hi fellow 'netters,
>
>My name is Yoshio Koseki and I recently started using a magazine
>subscription club in the USA that has a FREE 1 yr. magazine subscription
>deal with your first paid order- and I have been very pleased with them.
>They have over 1,500 different USA titles that they can ship to any country
>on a subscription basis. As for computer magazines from the USA, they
>more of a selection than I ever knew even existed. They have magazines for
>most every area of interest in their list of 1,500 titles.
>
>Within the USA, for their USA members, they are cheaper than all their
>competitors and even the publishers themselves. This is their price
>guarantee.
>
>Overseas, on the average, they are generally around one-fourth to one-half
>of what the newstands overseas charge locally for USA magazines. On some
>titles they are as little as one-tenth of what the newstands charge. They
>feel that mgazines should not be a luxury overseas. In the USA, people
>buy magazines and then toss them after reading them for just a few minutes
>or hours. They are so cheap in the USA! Well, this company would like to
>make it the same way for their overseas members. They are also cheaper
>than all their competitors in the USA and overseas, including the
>publishers themselves! This is their price guarantee. Around one-half
>their business comes from overseas, so they are very patient with new
>members who only speak limited English as a 2nd language.
>
>Their prices are so cheap because they deal direct with each publisher and
>cut-out all the middlemen.
>
>They will send you their DELUXE EMAIL CATALOGUE (around 525K-big and
>juicey) !)...if you completely fill out the form above. It has lists of
>all the freebies, lists of all the titles they sell, titles broken down by
>categories and detailed descriptions on nearly 1,200 of the titles that
>they sell.
>
>Please do not email me as I am just a happy customer and a *busy* student.
>I don't have time to even complete my thesis in time, let alone run my
>part-time software business! Please fill out the below form and email to
>them at:
>
>
>FREE-magazine-subscription-offer@-----.int
>
>*NOTE: to make it easier for you to reply, I have put their address in
>the "Reply-To" field, which means you can just use your email software to
>reply to this message in order to get that address to pop-up in your "To:"
>field.*
>
>They guarantee to beat all their competitors' prices. Sometimes they are
>less than half of the next best deal I have been able to find and other
>times, just a little cheaper - but I have never found a lower rate yet.
>They assured me that if I ever do, they will beat it.
>
>They have been very helpful and helped me change my address from the USA to
>Finland and then back again when I moved last month. They are very
>knowledgeable about addressing mags worldwide.
>
>They have a deal where you can get a free 1 yr. sub to a new magazine from
>a special list of over 300 popular titles published in the USA. They will
>give you this free 1 yr. sub when you place your first paid order with them
>to a renewal or new subscription to any of the over 1,500 different popular
>USA titles they sell.
>
>They can arrange delivery to virtually any country and I think they have
>clients in around 35 or 36 countries now. Outside the USA there is a
>charge for foreign postage and handling (on both paid and freebie subs)
>that varies from magazine to magazine. I have found their staff to be very
>friendly and courteous. They even helped me with an address change when I
>moved from one country to another.
>
>The owner thinks of his service as a "club" and his clients as "members"
>(even though there is no extra fee to become a member - your first purchase
>automatically makes you a member) and he is real picky about who he accepts
>as a new member. When he sets you up as a new member, he himself calls
>you personally on the phone to explain how he works his deal, or sometimes
>he has one of his assistants call. He is kind of quirky sometimes - he
>insists on setting up new members by phone so he can say hi to everyone (I
>sure wouldn't want to have his phone bills!), but you can place future
>orders (after your first order) via E-mail.
>
>He has some really friendly young ladies working for him, who seem to know
>just as much as he does about this magazine stuff. If you live overseas,
>he will even call you there, as long as you are interested, but I think he
>still makes all his overseas calls on the weekends, I guess cause the long
>distance rates are cheaper then.
>
>He only likes to take new members from referrals from satisfied existing
>members and he does virtually no advertising. When I got set-up, they had
>a 2-3 week waiting list for new members to be called back so that they
>could join up. (Once you are an existing member, they help you immediately
>when you call. ) I think they are able to get back to prospective new
>members the same day or within a few days now, as they have increased
>their staff. I am not sure about this.........but if you email the above
>form to them, that is the way to get started!
>
>They will send you their DELUXE EMAIL CATALOGUE (around 525K-big and
>juicey) !)...if you completely fill out the form above. It has lists of
>all the freebies, lists of all the titles they sell, titles broken down by
>categories and detailed descriptions on nearly 1,200 of the titles that
>they sell.
>
>They then send you email that outlines how his club works and the list of
>free choices that you can choose from, as well as the entire list of what
>he sells; and then they will give you a quick (3-5 minute) friendly,
>no-pressure no-obligation call to explain everything to you personally and
>answer all your questions.
>
>Once you get in, you'll love them. I do.
>
>
>Sincerely,
>
>Yoshio Koseki
>
>
>ps. please forward a copy of this message to all your friends on the net
>who you think might be interested in it! It is a great deal! If you join
>and then they join after you, you will earn a free 1 yr. subscription for
>each new person you get to join after you join! If you exceed 25
>referrals, they let you use them to give away as gifts, for Christmas,
>Chanukah or any other occasion. Please be kind enough to mention my name
>when you join. I will then get a free magazine for a year for referring
>you.
>Thank you.
>
>
Randolf Keller Suita-shi
13-19 Nagano-Higashi
Kasa MK 303
Osaka 564
Tel./Fax: +81 / 6 / 876 - 1319