Re: [Emc-users] CNC routing goes mainstream

2007-01-03 Thread Jack
Sears Roebuck Company was a GREAT retailer at one time. But since I remember they have always been a little high priced. When they were a real catalog retailer you could purchase almost anything in life from them (in the 1920's or so I think they sold house kits). Still their small tool, power

Re: [Emc-users] CNC routing goes mainstream

2007-01-01 Thread Mario .
Yes it is old... Trick! Just plain advertising WITHOUT any SIGN of technical merit. And how do you connect EMC to it? (you spam-bot posted this to emc-users mailing list YOU HEAR RIGHT, EMC U-S-E-R-S ) Plus, the Sears have no establishment in my country and in hundred others too, while EMC is

Re: [Emc-users] CNC routing goes mainstream

2007-01-01 Thread Mario .
I am sorry, but this can not be discerned from automatic spam generator. As for non-availability, TESCO for example advertises products they do not have on general sale, they have, but 2-3 PIECES for 5-milion inhabitants! Now imagine their offer of some cheaper high-quality electronics, like a

Re: [Emc-users] CNC routing goes mainstream

2007-01-01 Thread Jon Elson
Mario. wrote: Oh, yes, I will never buy Sears, because they advertise something they do not even manufacture, Sears doesn't manufacture ANYTHING in their entire store. At one time, they may have made some of the Craftsman brand of small hand tools themselves. Now, they are just a department

Re: [Emc-users] CNC routing goes mainstream

2007-01-01 Thread Mario .
So, Sears is a some kind of hobby-TESCO? So, similar practices can be awaited... either lie as much as you can, or perish. And, sorry again to all for overreacting to advertising, had to deal with lots of dumb, stupid, and idiotic customers for the past year - most of them wanting to buy goods

Re: [Emc-users] CNC routing goes mainstream

2007-01-01 Thread Javid Butler
Message - From: Jon Elson [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Enhanced Machine Controller (EMC) emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net Sent: Monday, January 01, 2007 4:09 PM Subject: Re: [Emc-users] CNC routing goes mainstream Mario. wrote: Oh, yes, I will never buy Sears, because they advertise something

Re: [Emc-users] CNC routing goes mainstream

2007-01-01 Thread Jim Register
On Mon, 2007-01-01 at 23:37 +0100, Mario. wrote: By the way, I NEVER heard of any Sears before in my entire life. Maybe except of Sears Tower. Yep, that's them. Been around for quite a while. See: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sears_Tower

[Emc-users] CNC routing goes mainstream

2006-12-31 Thread Dean Hedin
I guess it had to happen sometime.. I was watching the Barret Jackson auction tonight an an interesting Sears commercial appeared. Seems Sears in now selling a CNC wood router, the Compucarve.