Hello Paul
I didn't know this, excellent idea!
Thanks
Michel Alloo
Hovesesteenweg 64
2530    Boechout
        Belgium
 
At 19:24 06/04/98 EDT, you wrote:
>Hi Jan,
>
>No flaming, but just to explain my own approach.  I do just as you say,
>listing the commonest shells at $1.00, because it is hardly worth my while to
>import, clean, catalog, pack and ship a shell for $.25.  However, when folks
>order shells like Donax variabilis, Littorina littorea, Nassarius obsoletus,
>etc. I invariably send out two or three specimens for the $1.00 received.  I
>list Gemma gemma at $1.00, but anyone who orders it gets a half dozen or so.
>Maybe you are right, and it would be better to simply list them as 3 for
>$1.00, I'm not sure.  Would like to hear what other folks think on this.
>
>Regards,
>Paul Monfils
>
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