Re: Freelancing

[SteveFJong -at- aol -dot- com]

Diane Evans <diane_evans -at- hotmail -dot- com> once totally annoyed a copy center 
worker by asking to pay the posted price of 0 .025 cents each for copies.

I can think of at least two former Digital engineers, poster boys for 
anal-retentiveness, who have each repeatedly filed lawsuits and pressed 
charges with merchants over things just like that. They win, too--they're not 
wrong, and they're not stupid.

In that spirit, but certainly not to suggest a course of action, let me point 
out that a posted price is legally binding. Had you insisted on paying, say, 
25 cents for your thousand copies, you would eventually have prevailed in 
court. (You would probably even win treble damages for the pain and suffering 
you endured when they called the cops on you 8^)

But let us give thanks today that life is too short to encourage us to tilt 
at such windmills, even to save a few bucks, except for the obsessives and 
compulsives for whom this is sport!


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