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echo: home_office
to: GARY SONNENBERG
from: BOB F HOWARD
date: 1997-01-29 03:11:00
subject: @ sign

Re: @ sign
 
>  BFH> commercial use.
>  I know @ is shorter, but if you think there's a chance of more confusion 
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>  the future, avoid it altogether. Use "ea." or "at" instead. They're not
>  that much longer and can't be mistaken.
>  Gary
> ... "Don't mince words, Bob ... what do you *REALLY* think?"
For price quotes I will now always use ea. for each, and not @.
The price quote confusion I got into was bad.
500pcs @ $8.95
I read it as all 500 pcs at $8.95.
I heard one guy refer to @ sign as "in care of", that must be wrong.
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