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From: Garret Smyth <>
Newsgroups: sci.cryonics
Subject: CI Prices (Re: neuro/Pretoria)
Date: Fri, 02 Feb 96 04:28:51 GMT
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Me (Garret):
> > There will always be some people who
> > can't afford $28,000 dollars plus shipping
> > (which add on almost as much again).
    ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
John de Rivaz: 
> No it doesn't. If you allow $6,000 over the 28k you will have considered 
> several years of inflation of the costs presently suggested by Barry Albin 
> and Co., CI's UK agents. (Although this hasn't been tested, I think you can 
> avoid the UK's 17.5% value added tax by arranging for CI to order the 
> transport from the USA rather than paying for it out of your trust or 
> estate).

Me again:
I understand that F A Albin and Sons charge 2,000 to 7,000 Pounds Sterling
($3,180 - $11,130) [their figures] "depending on where you are in Europe,
difficulties involved, Airfreight charges and local fees etc."

Inflation isn't mentioned, but I've heard that they prefer you to pay when
you sign up and if you want to pay on suspension you are expected to arrange
a much larger sum in life insurance.

As well as this, I read on th net - I think in a posting from Robert Ettinger -
that Albins have an air ambulance available at short notice. I have to assume
that they mean that they would get a short notice charter. When I read this
I asked a friend who is a pilot (in the charter field at the time) to find out
the cost of a charter from Europe to the US. He was at first unenthusiastic
to get quotes on the grounds that such a charter is almost unheard of and
no one really did such a trip. I pressed the matter and he got a rough figure
 - about 20,000 pounds! I guess if CI were serious about such a flight they
would have to add the cost to the suspension. Albin's presumably add their bit
too (and, although the CI's share may not attract VAT, Albin's would have to,
so I assume the Albin figures include tax.)

Hence CI's transport can add the same again as suspension. And transport is
*un*frozen with CI.

TTFN

G

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Garret Smyth

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