On Sat, 18 Oct 2003 18:44:36 GMT, TomL Crawled out of
the shop and said. . .:

I'm of the firm belief Woodcraft is fully to blame as far as the
Jorgensen clamp sale incident. Many times when a retailer has a
special promotion they will tell you upfront about 'limited
quantities'. The better retailers will even state the amount of
inventory on hand. In addition they might disclaim the availability of
rainchecks. Woodcraft could have done some of the above. They could
also have backordered some or all of what they could not fulfill. I
can't help but think this promo was poorly planned or a clever ruse to
harvest email and home addresses. Yes, I was lucky enough to get my
order in and have the shipping confirmed, however I don't expect I'll
be doing any future business with them.

TomL

i read the initial web page that was up before the "sale" started, and
i seem to recall it said to the effect of, "limited to stock on hand,
no rain checks."

i saw nothing wrong with what took place, and lets face it. EVERY
wooddorker on the face of the earth knew about this promo at least a
week ago.

even if they had 5000 clamps on hand. 1000 wooddorkers each buying 5
clamps,,,, you get my meaning