tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Tue Apr 16 13:49:54 1996
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Re: KLI Merchant Page 'n' Klingon Way
- From: Eric Andeen <[email protected]>
- Subject: Re: KLI Merchant Page 'n' Klingon Way
- Date: Tue, 16 Apr 1996 13:49:50 -0700
- Organization: Honeywell
- References: <[email protected]>
ghItlh Lawerence:
>Retail price of this paperback is $5.99, and if there is
>an interest in it we can easily make it available on the
>Merchant Page (though I'll bump the price a penny to
>make it an even $6.00). I'm a bit ambivalent about it
>though because I don't want to encourage credit card
>orders for that small a purchase. As many of you know,
>we pay a percentage of the purchase to the company that
>provides merchant status to us, allowing us to accept
>your credit cards. That percentage flucuates as a
>function of the average purchase during a span of time;
>think of it as a handling fee. The lower the average
>purchase, the greater the percentage of the handling
>fee. One of the cut-off points is $15, and since most
>of what we offer costs that much or more we have so far
>qualified for a charge of about five percent. We're new
>at this, and we're hoping we can make this whole charge
>card thing work (and without adding in a lot of shipping
>and handling charges). But if the average order drops
>below $15 then the percentage soars up to about eight
>percent. Which is where my reluctance to carry $6
>paperbacks comes in.
I, for one, would not like to see this concern limit
availability of materials. I do not think this will be a
problem, but if it does, you could institute a $15
minimum for credit card purchases or a handling fee for
smaller purchases. I tend to order in batches (e.g.
Hamlet and several back issues of HolQeD), and I suspect
most others will also.
pagh