Bad Trader Alert- Warning

[Johan Gustavsson]

> I bought A copy of The Allen Strange book "Electronic Music..." from
> SYNTHESIZER NETWORK <network at analogue.org>. I thought I was pruchasing
> an original Hardbound copy but instead received a Photocopy! The photo
> copy is legible but I wanted the book for it's collectability as well
> as the information. Anyway I ended paying $65.00 plus $25.00 shipping
> for a D**n photocopy. I e-mailed them about it and they offered to buy
> the book back and replied that they have ten other people who will be
> willing to buy it. FINE!! Let them just make more Photocopies!! If I
> send it back I will still be out the $25.00 shipping plus whatever it
> costs to ship it back to them. 
> 
> Just be aware that these guys may not be perfectly honest.
> Rant off 

Well...The syntheziser network is a webdealer, with their site at
<http://www.analogue.org/network/>. Now, the text on the site
pertaining to the book is this:

>   Thorough-going patching techniques in theory. The last few copies
>   of the "second edition" very good printing (photo-copy) and still
>   the best analogue book ever.                ^^^^^^^^^^

...i.e. it says, in plain text, that the book is a photocopy. If you
buy a photocopied book from a dealer that plainly states that he's
selling a photocopy, I wouldn't really call him dishonest. I might
call you inattentive or a whiner, though :-) And posting just the mail
address, not the website adress, might look like you're trying to
avoid having the other synth-diyers find the above-quoted text, which
would make *you* the dishonest one here.

/Moxie (Have bought the very same book. Quite pleased, too)