ITEMS LIST............ (fwd)

[Joe R.]

   ROFL! What's next, VCF Nigeria?

    Joe



At 11:36 AM 9/21/04 -0700, you wrote:
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>I did a BCC of the message below to the list but it didn't go through for
>some reason.  I wonder why not?
>
>Anyway, this is the last message I sent to my "customer".  I'm anxiously
>awaiting his reply.  I can't wait to get behind the wheels of that
>Lamborghini with my personal escort after a refreshing milk bath.
>
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>---------- Forwarded message ----------
>Date: Tue, 21 Sep 2004 09:01:37 -0700 (PDT)
>From: Vintage Computer Festival <vcf at siconic.com>
>To: mark green <greensupplier at yahoo.com>
>Subject: Re: ITEMS LIST............
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>On Tue, 21 Sep 2004, mark green wrote:
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>> hello
>>       thank you for the reply i we like to ship in 3 day plaese caculate
>> the shipping cost to this address
>>      40  bello street papa ajao mushin lagos nigeria 23401
>
>If you choose my Personal Delivery Option then I would be there in about 3
>days.  It will take me 1-2 days to prepare and then 1 day for travel, so I
>would be there on Friday or Saturday.
>
>Checking around, the best price on airfare seems to be $1,782 for a
>roundtrip.  I'll require two nights in the hotel, so I imagine $200 per
>night should cover that.  For food I imagine I can get by on $100.  After
>much research, I can get a Lamborghini for $463 for the day (I had to
>really haggle on this one) but it will require a $1000 deposit for the
>short rental.  A good personal escort will be another $1000 for the time I
>will be there (she must be clean, bathed, and shaven, and her paperwork
>certifying she is 100% disease-free must be notarized).  Throw in another
>$100 for the French wine and probably $50 for the milk bath.  So that
>comes out to something like $3,695.
>
>Please send a valid, non-fraudulent cashier's check for US$12,457.48
>(product + shipping) to me and I'll be there by Saturday with your brand
>new Sony laptops plus your Commodore Business Machines 1526 Printer
>(quantity 5) and your Okidata Okimate 21 printer (also quantity 5).
>
>I look very forward to accumulating this transaction in the swiftest
>feasible timeslot capable to man.
>
>Thank you for your business!!!
>
>Osama
>
>P.S. I just want to give a shout-out to my homies on CCTALK!  VCF is in
>the house, boyeeee!!!
>
>>
>> Vintage Computer Festival <vcf at siconic.com> wrote:
>> On Mon, 20 Sep 2004, mark green wrote:
>>
>> > thank you for therespond plaese i want you to caculate the total
>> > cost of the first order and 5 sony laptop plaese speed up the caculation
>> > so that i can make the payment and your reply is late plaese i need a
>> > qiuck reply
>>
>> Ok, the total without shipping is $8,762.48. I took the liberty of
>> configuring the laptops with the maximum 64K of memory and BASIC language
>> installed via the Bubble Memory module carrier, since you did not specify
>> what you wanted exactly. I also installed two 5.25" 140K floppy disks (I
>> didn't have any 8" disk drives available).
>>
>> How quickly would you like them shipped? Your options are:
>>
>> 1) Personal same-day delivery - I will deliver them to your door but you
>> must pay for the airfare, a hotel room, rental car (I require no less than
>> a high speed Italian car), personal escort that is certified disease free,
>> and three meals a day plus dessert and a bottle of French wine with my
>> milk bath at the end of each day.
>>
>> 2) Surface mail - 6-8 weeks
>>
>> 3) Camel courier (my cousin in Saudi Arabia runs this service) which will
>> take about 2-3 weeks once the products arrive in an undisclosed location
>> in an unidentified gulf state.
>>
>> Please advise immediately as payment will be required soon.
>>
>>
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>Sellam Ismail                                        Vintage Computer
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