Tom Watson wrote...
On Tue, 03 Feb 2004 03:01:11 GMT, Jim Wilson
wrote:

Actually, I don't know if the USCF is directly selling equipment anymore,
what with all the money they (we) were losing; I think we've farmed it
all out. But the sets are still the same.


I hope that they do farm it out. My experience in ordering with them
has been borderline awful.

They really aren't set up to do proper online ordering. You have to
order without knowing what is in stock and, when you call, no one can
tell you when new stock might be in.

They aren't set up to do *any* order service at all! I was talking about
this stuff with Doris Barry a couple weeks ago (she was on the executive
board until a year or two ago, and her husband, Denis, rest his soul, was
USCF president before that). Doris told me it takes six USCF employees to
process an order. And they were turning only something like $2M per
year!!

The USCF is so mired in politics that it has a hard time being effective
at anything.

I suspect that they have fallen in arrears with some vendors and are
not being sent new stock.

That in fact did happen. From what I hear, they're pulling out of it,
though.

Jim

(tom - who actually enjoyed the pre-algebraic days when King-Pawn to
King-Pawn-Four really meant something - it's so damned dry now.)

*cough* (G)