Good News/Bad news

From: Carlos Murillo <cem14_at_cornell.edu>
Date: Sun Jun 11 18:12:50 2000

At 12:03 PM 6/11/00 -0500, you 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 bet that the store manager has an idea about who could have done this.
Most likely, someone asked about the item after you left, he
was told that the item was taken and decided that you would not
have it either. Unfortunately, there are many people like that.

carlos.
Received on Sun Jun 11 2000 - 18:12:50 BST

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