6 Nov
2000
6 Nov
'00
3:52 a.m.
At 12:58 AM 11/6/00 -0800, Mike wrote:
If your going to make low ball bids, don't get embarassed by it. When "I"
am buying "fair market price" doesn't mean a rodents behind to me, I offer
"about" what the item is worth TO ME, with some room to negotiate.
Buying and selling should be HAPPY. Getting all wound up over issues you
can't control isn't healthy. I know because I do it all the time.
My point is that apparently several people on this
list would LIKE to have
one of these old computer things, but don't want to pay a fair market price
for it. You have my sympathy I hate paying a fair market price for
anything, and rarely come close to it, but those are often the only kind of
cookies on the table, deal with it politely.
And other message took me to task for some "low ball" bid.
But both Mike and Craig have expressed a misunderstanding that is important
for people to avoid. The Market Price (MP) is defined between the set of
all buyers for a product and the seller of the product. The "Worth" of