2 messages:

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-------- Original Message --------
Subject: Re: Pre-payment of serials renewal list? -- Teri Koch
Date: Tue, 27 Jun 2000 16:11:52 -0500
From: Karen Chobot <chobot@plains.nodak.edu>

Hi - we are a smaller institution, about 2350 FTE, 850 periodicals.  My
order is in the $65,000 range.  My solution has been to make a partial
prepayment of about $60,000 in order to take advantage of a large
portion
of the discount.  I checked with the business office to be sure that was
OK.  I pay the remainder when finally invoiced after doing all the
checks
and changes on the Annual Renewal.  Even a few hundred $$ makes a
difference in the journals I can buy and I figure every little bit is
worth
it.  Karen Chobot.

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-------- Original Message --------
Subject: Re: Pre-payment of serials renewal list? -- Teri Koch
Date: Tue, 27 Jun 2000 16:32:07 -0500
From: Jill Mason <jmason@ebsco.com>

In response to one of your responses, "The discount is nice but be
prepared
to deal with a lot of supplemental
invoices during the year.", you can pay any amount, not just the total
due
and this would be credited to your account with your discount. Only if
you
are Invoiced early will you receive 'a lot of supplemental invoices
during
the year'. If you are invoiced in late October or early November, you
will
receive fewer rate adjustments. Check with your EBSCO Account Services
Manager if you need further clarification.

At 01:36 PM 06/27/2000 -0400, you wrote:
>-------- Original Message --------
>Subject: Pre-payment of serials renewal list?
>Date: Tue, 27 Jun 2000 11:20:20 -0500
>From: Teri Koch <teri.koch@drake.edu>
>Reply-To: Teri Koch <teri.koch@drake.edu>
>
>
>Hi!
>   I'm wondering how many of you out there get your institutions to take
>advantage of the serials list pre-payment discount offered by vendors?
>Our vendor is EBSCO and we can get varying discounts for prepaying the
>big renewal list (i.e., 2% if paid by 6-26-00, 1.5% if paid by 7-31-00,
>etc.).
>   I would like to pre-pay the invoice, as it would result in thousands
>of dollars of savings for the library.     I'm hopeful that if I can
>come up with a list of other institutions (roughly similar in size to
>mine; 4200 FTE, private four year University; current subscriptions on
>our renewal list is about 1600) that actually do pre-pay, that it might
>lend some credence to my argument.
>   Thanks in advance for your help!
>
>Regards--
>
>Teri Koch
>Acquisitions, Serials & Electronic Products Librarian
>Drake University
>Cowles Library
>2507 University Ave.
>Des Moines, IA  50311
>
>teri.koch@drake.edu
>
>