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Bill,
I am afraid you will receive a bill from DHL in the next month.
At 04:01 PM 11/27/00 -0800, you wrote:
>One questions how free the market really is when multiple vendors all charge
>the same rediculously high fee. However, there's a bright side! I just
>received my purchase of MetaStock that was shipped via DHL from Salt Lake
>City. It arrived and the courier asked me for nothing (not even my
>signature)! So, not only was I not charged an inflated brokerage fee, but I
>wasn't charged the PST or GST taxes (14%) on the Canadian value of the
>purchase. I expected to pay over CDN$80 in taxes at least.
>
>Now I need to determine if this was due to: Equis breaking the shipment into
>3 components - media, manuals and intellectual property, with intellectual
>property being non-taxable; Equis completed the correct shipping documents
>(Commercial Invoice) to avoid the courier brokerage fee; I was the
>beneficiary of an error on DHL's part.
>
>Just when I'm thinking the whole world is out to get me, something pleasant
>like this happens to put a curve in my well developed theory ... 8^)
>
>Bill
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: owner-metastock@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> > [mailto:owner-metastock@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of Mike Campbell
> > Sent: Monday, November 27, 2000 12:50 PM
> > To: metastock@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> > Subject: RE: Market Gurus (William Gann)
> >
> >
> > >>>>> "BI" == Bill Irwin <Bill-Irwin@xxxxxxxx> writes:
> >
> > BI> Out of interest, my son complained loudly to UPS and finally got a
> > BI> "one-time only" refund of this $27. Their only justification for
> > BI> this fee is to state that they're competitive with other couriers.
> > BI> That just means they all are milking this cash cow!
> >
> > Isn't this what a "Free Market" is all about?
> >
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