Specifications

Meets on the 2nd Thursday of each month

at Faith United Church

1778 Nash Road, Courtice

www.durhampc-usersclub.on.ca

A reminder to all Members of Macintosh Users East [MaUsE] that the package of

discounts and offers known as the Vendor Offers gets updated on a monthly basis.

The latest set of offers can be accessed from the Member side of the MaUsE web site,

and I encourage each of you to peruse these at your convenience.

As usual, the current collection of offers includes some which are applicable to U.S.

based MUG Members only, but there are still a signiﬁ cant number of offers available

to Canadians. The geographic applicability of each offer is outlined near the bottom

of each offer.

Just out of curiosity, I have reviewed each of the offers available to you and for each

recorded the U.S. dollar amount of the savings I imagined the average user might

realize if they took advantage of the offer. For those cases where the offer might

have been expressed as X percent off your order, I reviewed the ﬁ rm’s offerings and

picked a total order amount which was generally fairly conservative, like $50.00 to

$70.00, as a basis for the discount. In other cases, where the discount was a speciﬁ c

dollar amount, I simply used that dollar amount at a quantity of one. The result of this

little exercise is that we can make the statement that a Canadian MUG Member who

elected to take advantage of each of the Vendor Offers available to Canadians could

have generated a total savings of $306.73 U.S. in doing so.

I realize that it is not likely that any one person would be compelled to opt for ALL of

the Vendor Offers available, but my point is just to give you an idea of the potential

value of these offers. It provides another good part of the answer to the question we

sometimes get asked about, “What beneﬁ ts do I get for my membership fees that I

can’t get as a member of the General Public?”.

To access the Vendor Offers info, log onto the Members side of the MaUsE web site,

then click on the left most large icon with the dollar sign in it. Good luck!!

Jim Foster, President

Macintosh Users East