list discounts?

["Mark Longo" <longo@zk3.dec.com>]

        Hi all,

        As this mailing list grows it may be possible to get preferred 
customer discounts with certain vendor/dealers/shops by mentioning our 
list.  As I mentioned in my last message, as of this morning the list has 
48 members across the US, Canada, and Europe, and we've been growing by a 
few members each day.  As list members we collectively represent a *very* 
high density demographic of potential buyers of organ and related music 
products and services.

        The members of an internal Digital synth BBS made a discount 
arrangement with some local and mail order dealers some years back (though 
it's now defunct).  When each of us negotiate deals with a 
vendor/dealer/shop it can't hurt to ask if they would offer a discount to 
our list.

        I am willing to maintain a list of discounters, periodically 
circulate it, furnish it on member request, and include it in the welcome 
mail I send to new list members.

        If you should talk to a vendor/dealer/shop that offers such a 
discount send me:

        o  the name of the establishment
        o  what products/services they offer
        o  the extent and limits of the discount
        o  their phone number
        o  their geographic location
        o  the name of the person with whom you made the 
           arrangement

        In return for offering the discount, the discounter would recieve 
"free" advertising to our list members (when I periodically circulate the 
list and send it to new list members).  One might expect that such an 
arrangement would be especially attractive to 
mail-order vendors...

        thanks,
        Mark

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  Mark Longo -------> is *still* employed by:   Digital Equipment Corp. 
  longo@zk3.dec.com                             Nashua, NH