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July 21, 2005
These Emails Crossed Over the Atlantic
Cliff was writing to me at the same time I was writing to him. He was demanding tracking numbers for the toasters. I was telling him about my vacation.
>From: "knule ayoade"
>To: calculatoronfire@hotmail.com
>Subject: tracking number is expected tomorrow..
>Date: Thu, 21 Jul 2005 20:23:38 +0000
>
>
>
>Hello Harry,
> I told you that i wanted my goods to be ship in the next day
>which is friday and i will be expecting my tracking number
>tomorow,i pray that you shall be bless and i want you to call me
>immediately you recieve this mail now i will be expecting your call
>for me to hear your voice for the first time and to know how far was
>my goods/ order.I believe that you wont disappoint me in my order.I
>look forwards in knowing my tracking number early tomorro.
>
>
>
>Regards
> your pal cliff
>From: "calculatoronfire @hotmail.com"
>To: kunlecallforlove@hotmail.com
>Subject: RE: TRACKING NUMBER NEEDED ON FRIDAY PLEASE.Okay
>Date: Thu, 21 Jul 2005 17:03:10 -0400
>
>Cliff -
>
>I wasn't blowing you off, I've just been really busy. Things around
>the shop have been crazy.
>Chad, the guy supplying the toasters, has been giving me some grief.
>First he told me he could get the toasters to me by the Thursday
>(today), then he said next week because he couldn't get a toaster
>out of the room of one of his long-term residents. I told him I
>needed the toasters this week or I wasn't going to buy them at all.
>I mean, how hard is it to get a toaster out of a room? We went back
>and forth a bit and I had to threaten him a few times; I just know
>how badly you need these toasters. He finally agreed to have them
>delivered to the shop late tonight.
>I'm leaving for the weekend after I finish this email, but I'm
>leaving Randy in charge of packing up all the toasters. I instructed
>him to have the toasters out of the shop before close of business on
>Friday and to have them wrapped as gifts. He's a real bright guy,
>and a great worker. He'll carry out everything to the letter, I'm
>sure.
>I'd do this all myself, as you're my client, but I've got to get
>down to my daughter's wedding. She's marrying a nice little person
>-- that's what the wife has me calling him anyway. Up until she
>started dating this guy I just called them midgets. So anyway, I've
>got to get down to that wedding, and I'll probably be out most of
>next week.
>
>You mentioned something about a pretty exorbitant customs tax, so
>I've instructed Randy to mark the packages as gifts and declare a
>nominal value. That should also lower the shipping cost. He'll find
>the lowest possible price for shipping. I've also instructed him not
>to send the invoice, just like you asked. I'll hold onto that until
>you come visit.
>I'm really looking forward to that. I don't know that anybody has
>ever traveled from another country just to see me, though my sister
>once had a Japanese foreign exchange student about 10 years ago.
>
>Well, I've got to cut this short. While writing this message
>something popped up with the other deal I'm trying to close before I
>leave.
>I don't know if I mentioned it already, but we're getting a shipping
>pallet of iPods at about 1/2 the wholesale price. The pallet quite
>literally fell off the back of a truck during shipping and instead
>of sorting through to find which ones are good and which are still
>good the warehouse is just selling the whole pallet and having us do
>the sorting. My boss is counting on more than half of them working.
>Anyway, it seems someone in the warehouse swiped a few of the iPods
>from the damaged pallet and I've got to renegotiate a price.
>
>Ok. Tomorrow the stuff will be shipped.
>
>Harry.
Posted by calculatoronfire at July 21, 2005 05:10 PM
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have you read this story?
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/3887493.stm
they got Nigerian scammers to paint themselves and send pictures.
Posted by: d2ana at July 21, 2005 08:19 PM
I had not seen the story before. that guy is a genius. Some day I wish to be half as great.
The painted breast.
Posted by: brian at July 22, 2005 06:54 PM