On Wed, 23 May 2001, Sellam Ismail wrote:
> Personally, if I saw something in a Goodwill that I wasn't familiar with,
> and I posted about it to the list, and everyone responded with "GRAB IT!
> R_at_RE!!!", then I would probably go grab it so that I could give it to
> someone on the list. If there were multiple people interested in it and
> it mattered, I'd do some sort of lottery (pick a number from 0 to 65535)
> and then give it to whomever came closest (they pay shipping). I
Whatever happened to the first person to respond to a posting of
something for sale or for free to be the one to get it? That's how it
used to be on Usenet for many years, and it always worked out quite
well; that seems to be the fairest way to sell or give away something.
...of course, things have certainly changed since the masses invaded
the 'net.
That's also basically it works when one responds to a newspaper ad, or
sees some equipment at a hamfest, etc.
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Received on Wed May 23 2001 - 12:05:33 BST