Looking inside before you buy etc.

From: Mike Ford <mikeford_at_socal.rr.com>
Date: Tue Jun 13 05:53:32 2000

>Mike Ford wrote:
>>
>> Since I didn't see it mentioned in this "look before you buy" thread,
>> many of the vendors I deal with will quote a price on an item
>> basically AS IT SITS. If I choose to test the device, it now changes
>> into either a "working" or "nonworking" thing from a AS-IS thing, and
>> so changes the price.
>
>That'd be Schrodinger's Store?

So far it is just about any place where the "boss" directly handles all
transactions. Most of the time you can use your Jedi mind powers on the
weak minded employees who could give a rats anyway, even if they bleat
pitifully about you can't do that while you go ahead and do it. The boss,
who is saavy to the change in value from untested to tested, doesn't work
that way. The classic drive me nuts variety is when I make a deal on a
pallet, work two hours stripping parts, then have the owner want me to pay
by the part like they were in some display case at a retail store.
Received on Tue Jun 13 2000 - 05:53:32 BST