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June 30, 2005
My 2nd Response to Cliff
Cliff -
I hope you don't mind me calling you Cliff. I have a guy on my bowling team named Clifford, but you'd be hard-pressed to hear any of the guys at the lanes call him anything other than Cliff. I'm sure you don't want to hear me ramble on about my bowling buddies, though. You seem to be a real down-to-business kind of guy. I like that, and can tell we'll be getting along just fine. When I was in Africa I didn't see a lot of that. Of course I wasn't in Nigeria, I was in Mozambique.
That was back in the seventies. I was there as part of a US Special Forces team training with the Portuguese military. It was all hush hush at the time, but they had experience fighting in the jungles and we trained there before going to Viet-nam. It was a pretty area, but hot. Boy, was it hot.
Is it hot in Lagos? I picture it being really hot.
But that's just the market we're looking for!
We sell reconditioned and refurbished window air conditioning units. Or if you don't have a window you can cut a whole in the wall -- I'm sure you know the routine.
We deal in other reconditioned electric and electronic things from toasters to graphing calculators, but we definitely do a bulk of our business in air conditioners.
Unfortunately the nature of our business doesn't allow us to put together a catalog. We deal almost exclusively with individual units which means that our inventory is never too steady. That's not to say that if you wanted 100 A/C units we couldn't have them shipped within 2 weeks. It just means that we can't rely on having a certain model long enough to make printing a catalog worthwhile.
I've been bugging my boss for a while to get us some sort of website, but he's been pretty hesitant -- he's not real tech-savvy like you and I. Maybe once I tell him about your interest in our products over there in West Africa he'll change his mind.
Anyway, Cliff, I'll be out of the office for a few days -- over hear in the Good Old U. S. of A we celebrate our independence this weekend, so I'm taking a couple days off to drink a few beers and take my boy and his son out fishing -- but please let me know if our business format - individual refurbished items - fits in with your business model. I'm not positive if you knew we didn't deal in bulk. If you do think that we will meet your needs let me know and I'll trudge through our current inventory to let you know what we've got.
Thanks and have a great 4th!
Harry
Posted by calculatoronfire at June 30, 2005 04:30 PM
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