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



"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...

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)
>
> 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
>> news:12100160.2105.1330875874945.JavaMail.geo-discussion-forums@xxxxxxxx
>>> http://www.monoprice.com/
>>>
>>> I have bought a few things from them they have all kinds of odd ball
>>> stuff and very good pricing
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>> 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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