Mike Ford wrote:
>
> >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.
Kind of like a particular Ford dealer here in Central Jersey, Attempted to
sell me a Mutsang ;-) at 30% above teh going price. I'd already been to 3
other dealers and I gave them their price. The Sales droid got mad at me!
So I told him where to stick it in front of other customers. He followed
me out the door yelling that I would be back. I never went back, they
went out of business. And of course I'm now purchasing a Microvax (getting
back on topic ;-).
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Received on Tue Oct 10 2000 - 16:27:35 BST