Good News/Bad news

From: Dave McGuire <mcguire_at_neurotica.com>
Date: Sun Jun 11 12:36:33 2000

On June 11, John R. Keys Jr. wrote:
> The bad news is I found a System/36 model 5362 (complete) for $50 at a
> thrift in Houston and I paid the folks for it and asked if I could pick
> it up the next day as I would need a truck to carry it. They said ok
> and when I came back to pick it up someone had trashed the machine by
> taking out 5 cards and breaking them up on the floor next to the unit.
> I asked the store manager to adjusted the price I had paid for it but
> they said I had purchased it "AS IS" and said it was not trashed when I
> purchased it the day before. They did agree to lower the price on a Mac
> 145B powerbook that I found sitting on the shelf there as a way to
> settle my problem. I have never had anything like this happen before.

  Wow, that *sucks*. Sounds like somebody needs some broken fingers.
Sorry to hear that, man.

            -Dave McGuire
Received on Sun Jun 11 2000 - 12:36:33 BST

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