6 May
2001
6 May
'01
8:06 p.m.
At 07:38 PM 5/6/01 -0400, you wrote:
... I can't tell you how many times the dealers
told me how much
they could get for the item I was interested in on eBay. (Hint: more
than I was willing to pay.)
Having sold stuff on E-bay I usually respond to this:
"So you want to wait three to ten days, maybe get more
maybe less, wait for some payment, or maybe not, and
box it up and get it mailed, and then deal with the
jerks who either don't pay or claim you mislead them,
and then deal with the mail system going south or
Ebay goes down. What are you a masochist? I'll give
you $X for this and it will walk away on its own power
and you'll have coin in your pocket. So what's it
going to be?"
--Chuck