Fodors free gift ????????????
Feb 23rd, 2003, 12:40 PM
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Fodors free gift ????????????
Hi<BR><BR>I got the Email ...... you will get a gift as one of the first 300 to register.<BR><BR>Hasn't arrived yet.<BR><BR>Others have the same experience ?<BR><BR>Peter<BR>Languedoc, France<BR>http://tlp.netfirms.com<BR><BR>
Feb 23rd, 2003, 01:06 PM
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Peter,<BR><BR>I think all of those who live in Europe and got that email will never get their "free" gift - but their free advice is of course always welcome on this board ;-) <BR><BR>Andre<BR>Zurich, Switzerland
Feb 23rd, 2003, 01:09 PM
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I received mine just yesterday - the "How to Pack" book. I suspect yours will take a while to get to France. It took mine a while, since I live in a "foreign" country, too - South Dakota 
<BR>P.S. I like your website - especially the picture of the snow on the vinyard.
<BR>P.S. I like your website - especially the picture of the snow on the vinyard.
Feb 23rd, 2003, 06:12 PM
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I got "How to Pack" also, probably at least two weeks ago by now. It might be useful for someone who'd never traveled.<BR><BR>One odd thing about it I didn't like was it came in a small package without any return address or identifying marks on it and I found that kind of creepy, because I don't like opening mail when I don't know who the sender is, especially a small package. I had them send it to my work address (which is a secure facility because I do work for the federal government) because I didn't want them to know my home address, so maybe I am more sensitive to that kind of stuff than others. I don't know why they did that--the big secrecy.
Feb 23rd, 2003, 06:28 PM
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I got the Fodor's pin, to go with my other Fodor's pin, probably around the same time Christina got "How to Pack." As I recall, the package had a Random House/Bertelsmann return address.
Feb 25th, 2003, 01:36 PM
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Listen, for Danny or other staff lurkers, I want to say thanks for the gift, regardless. Nice touch.<BR><BR>Now, for the print publishing types at Fodors/Random House/Bertelsmann - are you kidding? How many of the "over 100,000 in print" customers paid $10 for the "How to Pack" book? Really?
Feb 25th, 2003, 04:56 PM
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Patrick.<BR><BR>Planes are made of aluminum ( or aluminium for some European readers).<BR><BR>Anyway, magnets won't stick to them.<BR><BR>However, too many magnet sets in one plane could mess with the navigation equipment, so it ends up in South Dakota, not France.
