Orlando Andico wrote: > actually the sad fact is, these #$%$#!! bloat the valuation because > they are expecting you to be shocked by the overly-high valuation and > offer them a bribe. they probably did not expect you to cough up that > amount. > > and if you challenge their valuation as too high, of course they will > stonewall because if they reduce it, that is tantamount to admitting > they were up to no good. so unless you like fighting bureaucrats and > possibly earning their enmity (and wasting lots of time) you would do > good to avoid the post office in the first place. > > there are lots of couriers such as Johnny Air and e2door who take care > of the dirty work of bribing the bureaucrats. > That is something to think about, hopefully I don't encounter too many of these schmucks.
I'll choose couriers carefully next time. And if I have no choice, then I'll probably either look for other sources or find a way to get around them. __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com _________________________________________________ Philippine Linux Users' Group (PLUG) Mailing List [email protected] (#PLUG @ irc.free.net.ph) Read the Guidelines: http://linux.org.ph/lists Searchable Archives: http://archives.free.net.ph

