Page 16 - Robot Builders Source Book - Gordon McComb

How to Use the Source Listings
Each listing in The Robot Builder’s Sourcebook provides basic contact information.
In most cases, the address and/or phone number is included for sellers of
products and services. Internet-only resources, such as search engines, include
the name of the site, its URL address, and a description.
Here’s a sample listing for a seller of products or services:

Robots R Us (1) 909090 (4)
123 Main St.
Anytown, XY 99999 (2)
USA (3)
(123) 555 1212 (5)
(123) 555-9876 (6)
(800) 555-1122 (7)
info@robotzrus (8)
http://www. robotzrus (9)
Manufacturer and seller of lots and lots of robot goodies. Everything is given
away for free! (10)
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1. Name of the resource.
2. Mailing address for the resource.
3. Country the resource is located in.
4. Six digit ID number that can be used at the support site for this book to look
up the latest known URL for the resource. See the Introduction for more
information.
5. Voice phone. Outside North America the country code is included.
6. Fax phone. As with the voice number, the country code is included for list-
ings outside North America.
7. Toll free phone. In almost all cases, these numbers are good only when dial-
ing within the seller’s country. In North America, many toll free numbers
do not function if calling locally, or within the same state.
8. Main e-mail contact.
9. Web site URL address.
10. Description of products or services provided.
Note: Not all listings include all of the above information. For example, some
companies wish to only publish their toll free phone, and not their local access
phone...sounds crazy, but that’s their approach to doing business.
Many of the listings also include one or more icons to help you identify special
features of the resource. Here’s what the icons mean:
My personal pick, because I know the company well or have ordered
from them and had good results.
Resource provides a printed catalog or sales brochure. The catalog may
not be free, so be sure to check.
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