5 Nov
2000
5 Nov
'00
6:58 p.m.
Taking a private message and posting it to the list
shows that:
a) you have little, if any, integrity
b) you have no respect for the mailing list community
c) you don't feel you have any strength in your argument, so you bring it
to a public forum perhaps in the hopes that people will rally to your side
and support you
What ever happened to, human beings make mistakes from time to time?
The stupidest thing that I do is to allow my temper and general emotions to
get envolved in a transaction. I screwed myself just last weekend at TRW,
made a nice big box of stuff over about 45 minutes, got bent when the guy
wanted $35 for my small box of misc junk and acted like I was looting his
house at that price, so I put the box down and walked off for 20 minutes.
Would I have been willing to pay $35 for the contents of the box? NO.
Did I SERIOUSLY want at least some of the items? YES. Instead of remaining
calm, I twitched and walked off. Funny how walking off can radically
increase the value of the items you left behind in your mind. What I would
do with a handfull of Zynx network cards beats me, but finding a complete
set of stuff for a PCMCIA ISA reader (card thing, ISA card, cable, manual,
etc.) I do regret leaving behind, not $35 worth of regret, but maybe a
figure the person would have found agreeable.
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.