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smarvell wrote:Is anyone in the UK going to bulk order them? It seems daft us all buying them individually with International shipping from the states.

That's a good idea.

Cafepress are grabbing gits, but I can get a deal on bulk and it'll save waiting until they get a European printing facility running.

Right, at the present exchange rate and with UK postage, I definitely want one. If we have a show of hands, maybe one of the shops can cut a deal and we get it from them.

So, that's one for me.

Tomo wrote:

J0kerz wrote:Finally !!! I have been waiting for this one for so long

Great Job Tomo !

Thanks!

I'm considering doing a follow up of tricks using its techniques. Have to see how the sales go first, though.

Please do, I will buy it for sure !

Tomo wrote:I'm considering doing a follow up of tricks using its techniques

Oh crikey - shall I just post you my credit card now and make life easier all round? (Cups, cups, cups, bloody cups....)

Tomo wrote:

smarvell wrote:Is anyone in the UK going to bulk order them? It seems daft us all buying them individually with International shipping from the states.

That's a good idea.

That I wish had been thought sooner. Curses ( slightly).

Tomo wrote:Cafepress are grabbing gits

You're a mild-mannered tech journo by day, aren't you? So, you've probably bumped into Lulu
http://www.lulu.com/uk
How did they compare (have they got a European printer, for example)?

Sexton Blake wrote:You're a mild-mannered tech journo by day, aren't you? So, you've probably bumped into Lulu
http://www.lulu.com/uk
How did they compare (have they got a European printer, for example)?

Well, I'm a mild-mannered tech journo by day, so I haven't bumped into a decent European printer by mistake.

Anyway, that's excellent. I'll have a look. 11 days is far too long to wait for all that lovely strippery goodness.

Bring on the ebook.

I do prefer paper books, but not ones that originate in the states.

smarvell wrote:Bring on the ebook.

I do prefer paper books, but not ones that originate in the states.

Well, for as long as I can hold out, there won't be an eBook version unless someone can convince me they have a decent anti-piracy system in place. However, the paper itself doesn't know it's from the States, and the important thing is the words that are printed on it. These are 100% UK words, and don't contain any sort of pro-Bush message. Honest!

aye, put me down for one too...

Okay, I'm looking into it...

You know that thing where you get an email alert when a message is added to a thread you're 'in'? Well, sometimes I don't (this one being an example). If it never worked I could understand it, but it just fails sometimes - though, perhaps, not entirely randomly: I've had no alerts about any of the messages posted here after I posted mine. Maybe, then, it fails on a thread-by-thread basis.

Does this happen to anyone else?

Maybe your email provider saw 'stripper' in the subject line, thought it was porn spam and filtered it? I have that problem all the time. A lot of perfectly good, quality porn ads just never get to me.

Charles Calthrop wrote:Maybe your email provider saw 'stripper' in the subject line, thought it was porn spam and filtered it? I have that problem all the time. A lot of perfectly good, quality porn ads just never get to me.

Actually, when I was ordering the Stripper book a related fear palsied my fearful hands. I was terrified that my girlfriend was going to lunge in (she always lunges in: it's her way) at any moment and catch sight of the computer screen. It would have been a completely no win situation:
"You're ordering Internet porn! You are dead."
"No. No, no, no. It's magic. It's a magic book."
"You're buying more magic? You are dead."

We used to have a very prim and proper anti-everything system on our works e-mail which was automatically deleting incoming messages from a new customer called The Hardstaff Group - even internal messages about them were being deleted. With some experimentation we found out that 'Hard' was OK and 'staff' was OK but not the two words together. We still have no idea why this happened but the whole system was very soon replaced with something a little more flexible .

That's nuts lol...... it's amazing what these bots filter out lol