On Thu, 22 Dec 2005 12:40:14 +0100, you wrote:
>Just have a look there :
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>Can you see the word "available" right there ?
>Sylvain

Hello Sylvain,

If you truly knew how Amazon worked, you would not have stopped your
research where you did. Notice also that Amazon mentions on that same
page, that some titles may be out of stock or out of print. What would
have happened, had you placed your order, was that they would have
initiated an order, looked around for the item, found it out of stock,
and placed your order on backorder. When they found they could not
order the item in question, your order would have been cancelled, and
either never charged, or, had it been charged initially, you would have
been refunded. If you had any idea what has to happen for Amazon to
list an item as unavailable, you would not have posted the above. The
seas need to boil and the ground needs to shake before Amazon will list
an "out of stock" item as truly unavailable.

What you also apparently don't know is that the author of the deck
(Robert Anue) some 5 years ago, chose not to approve further publication
of the deck, to his ONLY publisher of this item (M.A.P.S). And M.A.P.S.
was never willing to explain why to their distributors (which included
me). So there hasn't been any new ZEBU decks on the market since around
2000 or so.

What amazed me was how long it took for any other training organization
around the entire globe to come out with a new deck of cards to fill
this useful niche desire. Finally, Jamie Smart up in Leicester came out
with a deck, publishing it through his company, Salad. The Salad cards
are good, too.

The only way anyone is going to get their hands on a set of Zebu cards,
is if they're used (and you may be able to get a used deck through ebay,
or through the amazon.co.uk page -- look at the links on the right), or
if a training organization had a wholesale box of decks stuffed away
behind something else in a stockroom and suddenly discovered them.


Regards,

Jonathan Altfeld (jonathan@...)
http://www.altfeld.com/mastery/index.html
NLP & Selling: 2x in Knoxville, TN -- late March 2006
Linguistic Wizardry, Los Angeles, CA -- March 10-12, 2006
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NLP Advanced Master Prac in London with Doug O'Brien -- June 2006