RE: Never buy from Amazon

> On 17/12/08, Bob W, discombobulated, unleashed: > > >Hey, totally awesome! I got my quote on a t-shirt - that > makes me, like, > >kinda Shakespeare, right dude? > > > I'd say more shake than speare ;-) > you've been peeping again, haven't you -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.n

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John Francis wrote: > On Tue, Dec 16, 2008 at 10:33:49AM +, m.9.wil...@ntlworld.com wrote: > > > > PN Stenquist wrote: > > > Your one news report flies in the face of much evidence to the > > > contrary. So do you go with the one news report? Not in a logical world. > > > Paul

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On 17/12/08, Bob W, discombobulated, unleashed: >Hey, totally awesome! I got my quote on a t-shirt - that makes me, like, >kinda Shakespeare, right dude? I'd say more shake than speare ;-) -- Cheers, Cotty ___/\__ || (O) | People, Places, Pastiche ||=|http://www.cottysnaps.

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AlunFoto wrote: > 2008/12/16 : > > I can think of so many responses involving the word "Iraq" that I am > > spoiled for choice. > > Does Amazon have a branch in Iraq? :-) > > Jostein Cheapest AK47s on the Arabian peninsular. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.n

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Ken Waller wrote: - Original Message - From: "Bob W" AlunFoto wrote: > 2008/12/17 Bob W : >> The road to pdml is paved with good intentions. > > ROTFLMAO > > Oh, man! That got to be Quote Of the Year! > > Maaark!!! That one bypassed the Quotes List entirely and went straight to... ht

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that makes me, like, kinda Shakespeare, right dude? only if you buy one Kenneth Waller http://www.tinyurl.com/272u2f - Original Message - From: "Bob W" Subject: RE: Never buy from Amazon AlunFoto wrote: > 2008/12/17 Bob W : >> The road to pdml

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That one bypassed the Quotes List entirely and went straight to... http://www.cafepress.com/Robertstech.215324984 The ultimate honor ! Kenneth Waller http://www.tinyurl.com/272u2f - Original Message - From: "Mark Roberts" Subject: Re: Never buy from Amazon AlunFoto wr

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On Tue, Dec 16, 2008 at 6:33 PM, Anthony Farr wrote: Other "angry men" are pale imitations. [of Bob and Bill Robb] I'm not angry, just surly. ;-) -- Thanks, DougF (KG4LMZ) -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PD

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> ;-) > regards, Anthony > >> -Original Message- >> From: pdml-boun...@pdml.net [mailto:pdml-boun...@pdml.net] On Behalf Of >> Godfrey DiGiorgi >> Sent: Wednesday, 17 December 2008 5:26 AM >> To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List >> Subject: Re: Never bu

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Bob W wrote: AlunFoto wrote: 2008/12/17 Bob W : The road to pdml is paved with good intentions. ROTFLMAO Oh, man! That got to be Quote Of the Year! Maaark!!! That one bypassed the Quotes List entirely and went straight to... http://www.cafepress.com/Robertstech.215324984 Hey, totally awe

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> AlunFoto wrote: > > 2008/12/17 Bob W : > >> The road to pdml is paved with good intentions. > > > > ROTFLMAO > > > > Oh, man! That got to be Quote Of the Year! > > > > Maaark!!! > > That one bypassed the Quotes List entirely and went straight to... > http://www.cafepress.com/Robertstech.21532

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AlunFoto wrote: 2008/12/17 Bob W : The road to pdml is paved with good intentions. ROTFLMAO Oh, man! That got to be Quote Of the Year! Maaark!!! That one bypassed the Quotes List entirely and went straight to... http://www.cafepress.com/Robertstech.215324984 -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail

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2008/12/17 Bob W : > > The road to pdml is paved with good intentions. ROTFLMAO Oh, man! That got to be Quote Of the Year! Maaark!!! Jostein -- http://www.alunfoto.no/galleri/ http://alunfoto.blogspot.com -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_p

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- Original Message - From: "Ken Waller" No one can claim true membership of PDML until they've been put to the lash by Bob (or Bill Robb for that matter). MARK ! . . . . . . or anagram: O! Bleakly BB.

Re: Never buy from Amazon

On Tue, 16 Dec 2008 09:43:22 -0800 "Bob Blakely" wrote: > Don't worry Subash. When an off-topic tirade is appropriate, I'll let > you know. must be my lucky day to get off so easily thanks! regards, subash -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml

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pdml.net] On Behalf Of Godfrey DiGiorgi Sent: Wednesday, 17 December 2008 5:26 AM To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List Subject: Re: Never buy from Amazon On Dec 16, 2008, at 9:38 AM, Bob Blakely wrote: > I'm really a mild, very happy guy . A while back there was a time > when I thought I was angry,

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Of > Godfrey DiGiorgi > Sent: Wednesday, 17 December 2008 5:26 AM > To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List > Subject: Re: Never buy from Amazon > > > On Dec 16, 2008, at 9:38 AM, Bob Blakely wrote: > > > I'm really a mild, very happy guy . A while back there was a time

RE: Never buy from Amazon

> > >> speaking for myself, i like the pdml exactly as it is, thank you... > >> > >> > > > > Nooo. > > sad isn't it? back in the 70s my dad always used to warn me that if i > didn't watch it, i'd end up in the pdml. prescient soul :-) > The road to pdml is paved with goo

Re: Never buy from Amazon

On Tue, Dec 16, 2008 at 03:03:36PM -0500, eactiv...@aol.com wrote: > In a message dated 12/16/2008 9:25:12 A.M. Pacific Standard Time, > jo...@panix.com writes: > Ah. So you're saying that it's perfectly fine for you to choose to base > your response on just one unconfirmed and unsubstantiated

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On 16/12/08, Godfrey DiGiorgi, discombobulated, unleashed: >Mark! Damn. -- Cheers, Cotty ___/\__ || (O) | People, Places, Pastiche ||=|http://www.cottysnaps.com _ -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/p

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2008/12/16 Bob Sullivan : > Harden the F*** Up Mate! Ahahahahahahahahahahaha. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.

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In a message dated 12/16/2008 9:25:12 A.M. Pacific Standard Time, jo...@panix.com writes: Ah. So you're saying that it's perfectly fine for you to choose to base your response on just one unconfirmed and unsubstantiated news report because it fits in nicely with your pre-conceived ideas, rath

Re: Never buy from Amazon

On Dec 16, 2008, at 9:38 AM, Bob Blakely wrote: I'm really a mild, very happy guy . A while back there was a time when I thought I was angry, but I was wrong. It was merely homicidal rage. Mark! G -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.n

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Don't worry Subash. When an off-topic tirade is appropriate, I'll let you know. Regards Bob... --- "I don't mind if you don't like my manners. I don't like them myself. They're pretty bad. I grieve over them long winter evenings." -- P

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Nah! I'm really a mild, very happy guy . A while back there was a time when I thought I was angry, but I was wrong. It was merely homicidal rage. Regards Bob... --- "I don't mind if you don't like my manners. I don't like them myself. T

Re: Never buy from Amazon

On Tue, Dec 16, 2008 at 10:33:49AM +, m.9.wil...@ntlworld.com wrote: > > PN Stenquist wrote: > > Your one news report flies in the face of much evidence to the > > contrary. So do you go with the one news report? Not in a logical world. > > Paul > > I can think of so many responses i

Re: Never buy from Amazon

2008/12/16 : > I can think of so many responses involving the word "Iraq" that I am spoiled > for choice. Does Amazon have a branch in Iraq? :-) Jostein -- http://www.alunfoto.no/galleri/ http://alunfoto.blogspot.com -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/list

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istmas? > > > > > > John in Brisbane > > > > > > > > -Original Message- > > From: pdml-boun...@pdml.net [mailto:pdml-boun...@pdml.net] On Behalf > > Of Bob > > Sullivan > > Sent: Tuesday, 16 December 2008 9:32 AM > > T

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On 15/12/08, William Robb, discombobulated, unleashed: >Nooo. ROTFL -- Cheers, Cotty ___/\__ || (O) | People, Places, Pastiche ||=|http://www.cottysnaps.com _ -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.ne

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On 15/12/08, keith_w, discombobulated, unleashed: >You're getting nastier, Bob. Like it or not, it's true. Gotta be a... Mark! -- Cheers, Cotty ___/\__ || (O) | People, Places, Pastiche ||=|http://www.cottysnaps.com _ -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Ma

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On Tue, Dec 16, 2008 at 10:21 AM, William Robb wrote: >> speaking for myself, i like the pdml exactly as it is, thank you... >> >> > > Nooo. sad isn't it? back in the 70s my dad always used to warn me that if i didn't watch it, i'd end up in the pdml. prescient soul :-)

Re: Never buy from Amazon

- Original Message - From: "Subash" Subject: Re: Never buy from Amazon 4. follow your own advice. IIRC it wasn't too long back that you held forth here on the merits (or lack of it) of the educational system where you live speaking for myself, i like the pdm

Re: Never buy from Amazon

On Mon, 15 Dec 2008 17:56:09 -0800 "Bob Blakely" wrote: > 1.I don't give a flying f about discussing who you, I, or anyone > else will or will not do business with unless they are cheating > customers regarding photography related items. This is because: > 2.This forum is no place for thi

Re: Never buy from Amazon

- Original Message - From: "Bob Blakely" Subject: Re: Never buy from Amazon Well John, now you've gone and done it. ww -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link dir

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On Dec 15, 2008, at 9:04 PM, keith_w wrote: You're getting nastier, Bob. Like it or not, it's true. And it's about time! -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and fo

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at on earth does it have to do with Christmas? John in Brisbane -Original Message- From: pdml-boun...@pdml.net [mailto:pdml-boun...@pdml.net] On Behalf Of Bob Sullivan Sent: Tuesday, 16 December 2008 9:32 AM To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List Subject: Re: Never buy from Amazon Harden the F*

Re: Never buy from Amazon

Bob Blakely wrote: 1.I don't give a flying f about discussing who you, I, or anyone else will or will not do business with unless they are cheating customers regarding photography related items. This is because: 2.This forum is no place for this post. You should find or start another fo

Re: Never buy from Amazon

Now that I like. G On Dec 15, 2008, at 5:56 PM, Bob Blakely wrote: --- "I don't mind if you don't like my manners. I don't like them myself. They're pretty bad. I grieve over them long winter evenings." -- Philip Marlowe (Humphrey Bog

Re: Never buy from Amazon

1.I don't give a flying f about discussing who you, I, or anyone else will or will not do business with unless they are cheating customers regarding photography related items. This is because: 2.This forum is no place for this post. You should find or start another forum where this topic

Re: Never buy from Amazon

frank theriault wrote: > Amazon is doing the same thing as Western companies manufacturing in > (for instance) Asia. What we don't see won't hurt them (or their > image) - after all, it doesn't say "Amazon" on those warehouse doors, > does it? The area I'm in makes a lot of shoes for brands li

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mber 2008 9:32 AM To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List Subject: Re: Never buy from Amazon Harden the F*** Up Mate! It's the xmas season and all hell breaks loose. Regards, Bob S. On Sun, Dec 14, 2008 at 6:20 PM, John Coyle wrote: > After reading this: > http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au

Always buy from Amazon in Canada [Re: Never buy from Amazon]

PN Stenquist wrote: I will continue to buy from Amazon. They're honest and efficient, and I've heard no complaints in regard to the way they treat their workers at their principal facilities here in the U.S. Sounds like a case of bad management at one warehouse. Shit happens. Paul And I will

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Harden the F*** Up Mate! It's the xmas season and all hell breaks loose. Regards, Bob S. On Sun, Dec 14, 2008 at 6:20 PM, John Coyle wrote: > After reading this: > http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,,24798801-2703,00.html > > Amazon will never get another order from me. > > > John in B

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On Mon, Dec 15, 2008 at 1:38 PM, frank theriault wrote: > I should know, I've been on contract for about 12 years now. No paid > vacation. No raises. No benefits. No sick days. Then don't look at school bus driver then.:-) No benefit's, raises only for seniority and then its $1.00 +- per ru

Re: Never buy from Amazon

On Mon, Dec 15, 2008 at 3:54 PM, John Francis wrote: > Not the way I read the article. It's an Amazon warehouse, so the > issues are owned by Amazon. And some of the employees are permanent > employees. Others are temporary (especially around now, when there > is a large demand for seasonal w

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On Mon, Dec 15, 2008 at 01:38:13PM -0500, frank theriault wrote: > On Mon, Dec 15, 2008 at 12:38 PM, John Francis wrote: > > > > I wonder just how many of the complaints are just because these > > are temporary workers booked through one particular temp agency? > > > > For one thing, what's ridicu

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In a message dated 12/15/2008 5:08:31 A.M. Pacific Standard Time, msrobert...@ysu.edu writes: John Coyle wrote: > After reading this: > http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,,24798801-2703,00.html > > Amazon will never get another order from me. Amazon has long been known as the "Wal

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On Mon, Dec 15, 2008 at 12:38 PM, John Francis wrote: > > I wonder just how many of the complaints are just because these > are temporary workers booked through one particular temp agency? > > For one thing, what's ridiculous about "find your own transport > or pay to use our bus" (supplied, note,

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I wonder just how many of the complaints are just because these are temporary workers booked through one particular temp agency? For one thing, what's ridiculous about "find your own transport or pay to use our bus" (supplied, note, by the temp agency, not by Amazon). That's been the deal almost

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I will continue to buy from Amazon. They're honest and efficient, and I've heard no complaints in regard to the way they treat their workers at their principal facilities here in the U.S. Sounds like a case of bad management at one warehouse. Shit happens. Paul On Dec 14, 2008, at 7:20 PM,

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John Coyle wrote: After reading this: http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,,24798801-2703,00.html Amazon will never get another order from me. Amazon has long been known as the "Wal-Mart" of online retailers. I have an article titled "How I Escaped from amazon.cult" from Seattle Weekl

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On 15/12/08, John Coyle, discombobulated, unleashed: >After reading this: >http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,,24798801-2703,00.html > >Amazon will never get another order from me. > More info:

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On 15/12/08, John Coyle, discombobulated, unleashed: >After reading this: >http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,,24798801-2703,00.html > >Amazon will never get another order from me. This is the warehouse I filmed in: However - this is a

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On 14/12/08, Joseph McAllister, discombobulated, unleashed: >I doubt it's that bad in the US distribution points. Temps and >seasonal workers have plenty of court decisions to prevent that kind >of abuse. It is not that bad in the UK either. -- Cheers, Cotty ___/\__ || (O) | People,

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On 15/12/08, John Coyle, discombobulated, unleashed: >After reading this: >http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,,24798801-2703,00.html > >Amazon will never get another order from me. This article surprises me John. I have filmed inside the Amazon building in Northamptonshire for our new

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t; Behalf Of Joseph McAllister > Sent: 15 December 2008 02:54 > To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List > Subject: Re: Never buy from Amazon > > Looks like Tiny Tim under the lash in jolly old England this > christmas. > > I doubt it's that bad in the US distribution points. Tem

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Looks like Tiny Tim under the lash in jolly old England this christmas. I doubt it's that bad in the US distribution points. Temps and seasonal workers have plenty of court decisions to prevent that kind of abuse. I can't say that it doesn't happen hear. I just can't see Jeff Bezos being

Never buy from Amazon

After reading this: http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,,24798801-2703,00.html Amazon will never get another order from me. John in Brisbane -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the