Re: OT (was Re: ram/raid1)
Hi Giacomo:
It is poll time in Italy. However, I am not sure whether any politician to
vote is aware of the situation, or he just likes that privileges are not
touched. Politicians seek for votes, not for national wealth. Think about how
many privileges exist (untouched) in Italy. I am not making a list not to
irritate too many.
Francesco
On Friday 07 April 2006 11:45, Giacomo Mulas wrote:
> On Fri, 7 Apr 2006, Erik Mouw wrote:
> > You can order memory everywhere in the EU, that's what the "no
> > obstacles for trading goods" rules are for. If you can find memory
> > cheaper in (for example) Germany, buy it over there and have it shipped
> > to Italy. Be sure to let your Italian vendor know that he missed a
> > sale.
>
> Yes, you can do that if you are buying it for yourself as a private citizen
> or company. If you are buying it for a public institution, than you will
> require italian invoices and the like, which by and large means you have to
> buy in Italy. I know, unfortunately. I had to buy a (way) suboptimal laptop
> for my work, despite what I wanted (amd 64 based, large screen resolution,
> more than 2GB ram...) being easily available elsewhere, just for this
> reason. I had either to fork money out of my own pocket or buy something
> worse and more expensive. After many years of complaining (and having
> chosen many times before to spend my own money) I finally gave up and
> settled for the worse, more expensive solution with the office money (what
> the heck!).
>
> And, of course, companies _know_ this situation and exploit it, making very
> different commercial offers for different national markets (see e.g.
> differences in HP offers on the web, just for an example, between US and
> EU).
>
> Bye
> Giacomo
>
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