[Slowhand] Geographic restrictions

[FERNANDEZ de SOSA Juan Manuel]

I totally agree with ToeKneeF. I send CDs all over the World (including USA,
Canada, Australia, ...) from Spain and never had problems with customs
regulations. Sometimes I have requested a copy to US people that have
limited the offers to US residents only, and they have been so kind to send
me a copy to distribute also in Europe, so not all are worries. But I don't
like to see that in the offers because it limits the possibilities of others
SD's to obtain and share some interesting CDs.

Thanks in advance,
Juanma
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Date: Fri, 30 Jul 2004 08:40:06 -0400
From: ToeKneeF <slowhandnj at comcast.net>
Subject: [Slowhand] RE: Offering Crossroads Festival Sunday EC's gig
To: Slowhand List <slowhand at planet-torque.com>
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As someone who has regularly offered freebies to fellow Slowhanders, without
restriction, it disturbs me when people who have benefited from my offers,
and probably those of other US Slowhanders as well, place geographic
restrictions on their offers.

I send out all my offers "letter rate". This eliminates the need for customs
forms. When I was in Spain (also a member of the EU) in June, I mailed back
some "purchases" for myself. Although I was asked to complete customs forms,
I insisted that I wanted to mail my padded envelopes "letter rate". When
they looked it up, they saw that there was NO requirement for customs forms
for items mailed letter rate.  I relay this incident because I believe it
should be the same across all EU nations. Even if it is not, I regularly
receive packages from European trading partners that have customs forms and
they tell me it poses no problems in the mailing of CDs to trading partners.

As for myself, let me say that if any Slowhander makes a freebie offer and
places geographic limitations on it, PLEASE DON'T BOTHER RESPONDING TO ANY
OFFER OF MINE. I'M MAKING A LIST AND CHECKING IT TWICE.

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Subject: [Slowhand] Offering Crossroads Festival Sunday EC's gig
From:"ollio" <ollio at mbnet.fi> Date:Fri, 30 Jul 2004 10:52:45 +0300
To:<slowhand at planet-torque.com>

Hi all,
I'm offering back to the list recording of EC's set on Crossroads Festival
Sunday 6th of June.
I'll send this cdr to the first 3 to e-mail me. Sorry, this offer is only to
Slowhanders from European Union (due to customs regulations).

Keep on growin'
Olli


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