Re: looking for HDMI and hard to find cables found a good site

["Bob La Londe" <none@xxxxxxxx>]

"RockyTSquirrel" <gafa_usa@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> not to keep beating a dead horse, (so to say)  but  we had been in
> business for 30 years when we had been doing business with Petra..
> Sorry Bob, But I think something else was going on with them at that
> time.. cause they had our tax resale numbers,  company D&B rating, BBB
> ratings, all that stuff..
> Best I remember a new guy salesman  did a pot load of cold calling to our
> offices over a couple of weeks, right before they started all the BS
> about personal and credit info..

Fair enough.

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> RTS
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> "Bob La Londe"  wrote in message news:kzd5r.9736$wf.6833@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
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> "RockyTSquirrel" <gafa_usa@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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>> Good deal for you Bob...
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>> I'm not so forgiving  when it comes to a company  seeking my personal
>> info for no apparent reason...
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> As near as I can tell they only sell to businesses.  This may have been
> part
> of their process to make sure you were not an individual trying to
> purchase
> from them.
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>> RTS
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>> "Bob La Londe"  wrote in message
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>> "RockyTSquirrel" <gafa_usa@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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>>> I use to enjoy  purchasing from Petra,  till they had a change in their
>>> payment systems..
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>>> Last time I was there  they wanted all your banking and personal
>>> information to even accept a credit card purchase..
>>>
>>> I haven't been back since..  Don't plan on going back either..
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>> Ha!  A while back Petra cancelled my credit and didn't tell me.  Their
>> website processed my order.  When I realized that I wasn't getting my
>> stuff
>> I ordered it all someplace else.  They called me and asked if I wanted to
>> pay for the order with a credit card, and I asked them when I had last
>> been
>> late on a payment with them.  They asked if I wanted to send in a new
>> credit
>> ap.  Nope.  I got hung on a couple jobs because you screwed up.  Not
>> interested.  A couple days later they called back and said my credit had
>> been reopened whenever I needed to order anything.  I never filled out a
>> new
>> credit ap or gave them a new credit card.  Yeah it was a screw job at
>> first,
>> but they took the initiative to make it right with me.  Can't say that
>> about
>> a lot of companies.
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>> DBL for example.  They cancelled my credit because I didn't buy enough
>> from
>> them.  I had purchased about $20K from them that year.  I expected that
>> sort
>> of thing from them sooner or later after they were bought out by Ingram
>> Micro.  The funny thing is they had increased my credit limit not that
>> many
>> months previously so I could get what I needed from them without playing
>> games.  DBL/Ingram Micro can join Gaybar in the hall of infamy.  Ingram
>> Micro has been a chicken shit outfit since the mid or late '90s when they
>> not only instituted minimum large annual purchase requirements in order
>> to
>> buy from them at all, but also started charging to process credit
>> applications.  (Not a pittance either.  Seems I recall it was several
>> hundred dollars)
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>> Anyway.  I haven't had any further issues with Petra.  I place an order.
>> Five days later it arrives on my door step.  30 days later I pay them.
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>>> RTS
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>>> "Bob La Londe"  wrote in message
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>>> "nick mark59" <nmarkowitz@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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>>>> http://www.monoprice.com/
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>>>> I have bought a few things from them they have all kinds of odd ball
>>>> stuff and very good pricing
>>>
>>> I usually buy cables like that from Petra, and as near as I can tell
>>> Petra
>>> doesn't sell to the GP.
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