18 Nov
1998
18 Nov
'98
9:38 p.m.
Oh my. This is the best marketing job I've seen
yet. Somebody (a
Microsoft employee, thank dog) paid $541 for a few Popular Electronics
magazines, and they didn't even get *the* Altair issue!
http://cgi.ebay.com/aw-cgi/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=39459401
Gregorious. I guess the seller is happe - have you seen the
second and third highest bidder ? The difference is quite
amazing. 76 USD is a high but still reasonable bid, but
531 and 541 ? Could there reale have been two dumb ones
out there at the same time ?
There ought to be a law (or at least a good book).
A book can't change this. And a Law ? I guess the only
law aplicable here is one my mother told me when I was
thinking about any kind of sale:
Every day a dumb person get up, you just have to find it.
(She had a second one, regarding money/sales, that I
like even more: "Mai auf oda Ge'idbeidl" (its's Bavarian)
or in a more simple English version:
You have to open your mouth (and ask) or your wallet(and pay)
(to get something).)
Gruss
Hans
--
Ich denke, also bin ich, also gut
HRK