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- Path: sparky!uunet!shearson.com!lparisi
- From: lparisi@shearson.com (Lon G. Parisi)
- Subject: Re: *** Amiga 2000 FOR SALE with goodies ***
- Message-ID: <1992Dec23.150350.26689@shearson.com>
- Sender: news@shearson.com (News)
- Organization: Lehman Brothers, NY
- References: <1992Dec18.214117.12977@nsscmail.att.com> <1992Dec21.140550.607@shearson.com> <Dec.22.10.02.41.1992.19145@yoko.rutgers.edu>
- Date: Wed, 23 Dec 1992 15:03:50 GMT
- Lines: 28
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- In article <Dec.22.10.02.41.1992.19145@yoko.rutgers.edu> bohannon@yoko.rutgers.edu (Philip Bohannon) writes:
- >In article <1992Dec21.140550.607@shearson.com> lparisi@shearson.com (Lon G. Parisi) writes:
- >
- > [ Amiga controversy deleted...]
- >>
- >> I have sat by and watched this SAME thing over and over. Someone posts
- >> a for-sale ad which gets the melodramatic what-are-you-kidding response. In
- >> addition, the follow up is always the I-Can-Get-That-For-So-Much-Cheaper
- >> routine. People, if you think the price is high, DONT BUY IT. I thought this
- >> was ny.for-sale not ny.market-value.
- >
- >On the contrary, I think the "market value" posts are the best thing
- >about this form of classified ad, since I might be interested in
- >buying (or selling!) something for which it would take me a lot of
- >work to figure out what constitutes a "good deal".
- >
- >I agree with your point about the melodrama; perhaps we can encourage
- >"market value" messages which are short and have low sarcasm content.
- >
- >Philip Bohannon (bohannon@paul.rutgers.edu)
-
- Philip, we are speaking the same language. My sole purpose was to point out
- that an overpriced item will not receive any responses. Thus, the postee will
- either lower the price or hold on to the merchandise. Actually, there is one
- event that may take place. The postee may just sucker somebody. And if
- that happens, it's the sucker's own fault. I have no sympathy for that.
- I just want to see the for-sale posts, not the stupid responses. I hope
- I'm not the only one that feels like this..
-