[sdiy] Reprinting Electronotes

[Tom May]

"Jeffrey D. McEachin" <jdm at synthcom.com> writes:

> At 01:15 AM 12/14/02 -0600, Grant Richter wrote:
> >The way Bernie Hutchins tells it...
> >
> >Back when the wave of "vintage" synth fever came up, a number of websites
> >appeared offering the "Preferred Circuits Collection" and other Electronotes
> >material for sale. These were scams where crooks would just take the money
> >and not send anything back.

> What actually happened is that there was a copy of the PCC that was
> to be mailed to one person, who would copy it and mail it to the
> next person, et cetera, until everyone who wanted one had a copy.
> AFAIK, no money changed hands.  Hardly a criminal enterprise.  The
> participating parties resorted to this because several people,
> including one of the most beloved and respected German members of
> this list, had tried to buy EN material from Bernie, but got no
> response.  Oh, and another very esteemed listmember said he had been
> granted permission by Bernie to make copies for his friends.  Of
> course Bernie denied this and sent a nastygram to the list.  It was
> quite ugly watching everyone's hero act the way he did.  Many people
> sent him the full price of the PCC, despite having paid the
> photocopying costs.

I bought the whole EN from Bernie after participating in the copying
scheme, and let him know that in my case it had been an extremely
effective advertisement, and that I was happy to find he was still
selling EN.  I never regretted buying the whole set, and I always
mention that it arrived promptly.

Tom.