High priced vendors, was Moving a Microvax II

From: Mike Ford <mikeford_at_socal.rr.com>
Date: Tue Oct 10 12:06:09 2000

>Haha, ah yes... gotta love Virgil Rice.. I bought something from him once
>and even though I picked it up from his house, he still wanted me to pay
>like 30 bucks shipping.. He has lots of cool stuff that I'd love to buy, but

>"worth" truly irritate me... I'm not asking people to give everything away,
>just to be reasonable about negotiating...

I try and sell them on the idea of retail and wholesale customers. People
who find a copy of Processor and figure they in their junk shop will be
able to get prices remotely like a half page advertiser in the business for
20 years are living in a fantasy world. I tell them, call a few of those
places and find out what they pay for this item, with you paying the
shipping.

About half the time I make it through the second door where no retail
customer can go, the other half I just walk away. Places that sit on goods
demanding retail prices don't even exist after awhile in my thinking. If
they have a lot of neat toys my rejection takes quite a while to set in
though.
Received on Tue Oct 10 2000 - 12:06:09 BST