When you look at people like fedex and UPS totally milking the prices so their workers go on strike, it's actually logical.

I live in Chicago where a MAJOR UPS strike occurred a matter of months ago. Seriously, this totally caused shipping across the nation to grind to a halt for about a week or so. Workers needed better pay. So they raised the pay, logically, and the workers returned to work....

How do you think UPS is supposed to compensate for the millions of dollars lost as they pay their workers more than they can afford? The only solution for them, sadly, is to raise the shipping prices for consumers.

Right now there's commercials, ads, even people coming to my high school's career resource center to recruit people for UPS. Guess they're preying on teenagers who work for $5.15 an hour as it is at McDonald's or something like that who have abnormally low standards for their wages. Oh well... this is abnormally off-topic, but those are my two cents :)

--blue

I'm a french guy, and of course I live in France... But I want to purchase a TI92+ module from Dimension-TI web site or from anywhere else...
Can I do that ? I mean, can I buy a module on the net ? I saw that TI was selling hardware only to US ans Canada people ...
And what about the shipping&handling ?

Hi, its me =) I think there's something that most people overlooked. I found it quite interesting when I was looking at the HTML in the page that the form for purchasing something goes straight to Adam's email. What's so interesting about this is that your Credit Card # is included in this. So, this brings up a possible security issue. I for one, wouldn't give out my CC# (my parents') to a distributer (Adam) that...well, isn't big... So, maybe he can clear this up...

yeah, I agree with you, why would anyone give out their credit card to a "not so big" person for selling calcs. I am sorry for the comment above where I was rude, I was pe-oed that day. Well anyways the credit thing is a little starnge wince you can get online credit verifying services and ordering.

Trust me, this was NOT overlooked by most people. About 50 people have emailed me complaining that the site isnt secure. So here's my response:
1) It is very unlikely that your order will be "hacked" and your credit card number released.
2) You can fax your credit card number with the number on our page
3) We are currently working on solving the problem by:
a) Offering a secure siste
b) Offering payment by check

Well we here at TI-Central DO HAVE A SECURE SERVER FOR ALL TRANSACTIONS, NOT JUST CREDIT CARDS BUT MAIL ORDERS ALSO. You do have to worry about it. See DIM-TI does not see where we are comming from. Here is a group OF KIDS, who are taking your money and buying calculators. And about the email thing. That is very unbusiness like. With all the hackers today your business can fall by just one hack. And one comment on Eric Suns comments about our products: We are a business! To say a business you have to make something to stay in BUSINESS! DIM-TI is a bunch of kids!

Thanks,
Cody Clark

PS>> I am not attacking you all but I am just posting a point.

You still don't seem to understand, WE ARE NOT DOING THIS FOR A PROFIT. It's great that you are selling calculators for a profit. You have different goals than us. If some people buy your calculators, that's perfectly fine with us. Since we are doing this to help the community, if they find better deals then that's great for them. We are trying to get a secure order form, but since we've only been in "business" for about a week, we still have some things to work out. We are not trying to compete with you, as far as I'm concerned, you are a good service too. If people don't want to order from us for various reasons, I'd tell them about your TI-Central. When you say "See DIM-TI does not see where we are comming from" you imply that we care about TI-Central. I couldn't care less about it. Until now, I haven't acknowledged TI-Central's existance.

I mean that different than you think. See we tried to sell link cables for a $.32 cent profit. We could not do it. What I tried to say was, (of course I could be wrong), you will eventually get tried of doing something for nothing. It is great you are doing this for the TI community, but things tend to backfire before you know it. I could be compelety wrong, but if you think about it you know where I am comming from.

Thanks,
Cody Clark

I see what you mean, but now hear what I think. Dimension-TI has been running for over a year now. We've done a lot of work for absolutely nothing. Now that we're making a very little bit of money, it's a lot more than we were making before. In fact, we're selling much more than I expected, and making more money than I expected. Hopefully I will be able to LOWER prices soon. So far it's working, and I hope it will for a long time.

You spelled "coming" wrong...and the thing is, you can't run your blasted spell checker!!! Also, your last sentence makes absolutely no sense.

Umm, I'm sorry, but you are wrong with some things. Why does all of the contents on the ordering page for TI-Central goto TI_Calc@yahoo.com

To me that is very insecure, you say one hack and Adam would be wiped out, so would you, so quit acking like you are all business like. YOU HAVE AN INSECURE ORDERING METHOD ALSO!! OHH YEAH, YOU'RE PAGE IS SECURE, NOT THE SERVER IT SENDS THE MAIL TO: YAHOO.COM Adam, now I am leaning towards your side. Sorry for the comment above Adam.

Thanks for your support... I have not checked TI-Central's page to see if they do in fact have a secure site or not, it doesn't really bother me, but I'm glad that not everyone is listening to his pointless attempts at competition.

Who the hell is x? By the way, you responded to him again...

Completely wrong. NOTE: We will never post comments on this page again. Just because all this site is, bunch of KIDS. We use a CGI script for ordering information. That CGI script is hosted over a secure server. And anyway on Calculator Orders we do not accept credit cards! We do not even handle the Credit Card Numbers for the Link Cables and Other Items on our site. CCNOW does all of our transactions. Learn to get some more information before you attack a business. Things that that can bring strict plentys.

Thank you all and Merry Christmas,
Cody Clark
President, TI-Central
(We are currently closed for the Holidays so all our workers can be with their familys. We will reopen Jan. 1, 1999.)

So far, all you've managed to do is insult people. Now you go out of you way to insult the best TI site on the web. How many "kids" sites are like this one? Updated daily? Profesional site quality? Relevant topics, working links, and everything you could ever want to know about an adding machine? I don't care who it's run by. A site of this quality deserves merit, not insults. As far as typing more comments, I, or anyone else for that matter, couldn't care less whether or not you ever come here again.

Cody, you still don't get the point of my comment. You use a CGI mailer which posts the data to it, and then it sends the mail to calc_ti @yahoo.com, don't say that you are secure, your not. Your probably a kid so shut the hell up, I'm sick of the bullsh*t!!

TI-central seems quite aggressive... I think that if i buy a new ti calc, i may buy from DIM-TI!
:)

So what if they are making profit? Why do people sell? To make profit, or am I wrong? I think that they are doing us all a favor by keeping the prices low, and everyone should stop complaining about the shipping charges, etc. Their prices are low, might not be the lowest overall, but we have to give them credit for their efforts (specially since they're not some large store or anything.) Just let them be, if you want to buy a calculator from Dimension TI, do so, if you don't want to, then don't. My 2 cents...

One last comment...
Adam has kept a professional tone through all of his replies, and this needs to be admired. I really think Dimension TI is making a great job with what they are doing...Now that's 4 cents I've ported to this forum...

You have a link to Dimension TI but not to Calculators Inc. What is the URL to Calculators Inc?

It is http://www.calulatorsinc.com/ I live in the city they distribute.