Traves W. Coppock newsgroups-AT-farmvalleywoodworks-DOT-com wrote in message . ..
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.

No Woodcraft near me and I am not on their mailing list so the first I
heard of it was when the complaints were posted on the Wreck.

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

I think the complaint (at least the initial one) was that they placed
orders that were confirmed, THEN later learned that they were reduced
or cancelled. Hearing that makes me learing of shopping there too.
It's one thing to visit a store and find that they are out of the sale
item, it's another thing to visit the store, get your 5 clamps, then
have a store employee take them away from you when you are heading for
the door.

-Chris