10 Oct
2000
10 Oct
'00
9:27 a.m.
Mike Ford wrote:
Kind of like a particular Ford dealer here in Central Jersey, Attempted to
sell me a Mutsang ;-) at 30% above teh going price. I'd already been to 3
other dealers and I gave them their price. The Sales droid got mad at me!
So I told him where to stick it in front of other customers. He followed
me out the door yelling that I would be back. I never went back, they
went out of business. And of course I'm now purchasing a Microvax (getting
back on topic ;-).
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Haha, ah yes... gotta love Virgil Rice.. I bought
something from him once
and even though I picked it up from his house, he still wanted me to pay
like 30 bucks shipping.. He has lots of cool stuff that I'd love to buy, but
"worth" truly irritate me... I'm not
asking people to give everything away,
just to be reasonable about negotiating...
I try and sell them on the idea of retail and wholesale customers. People
who find a copy of Processor and figure they in their junk shop will be
able to get prices remotely like a half page advertiser in the business for
20 years are living in a fantasy world. I tell them, call a few of those
places and find out what they pay for this item, with you paying the
shipping.
About half the time I make it through the second door where no retail
customer can go, the other half I just walk away. Places that sit on goods
demanding retail prices don't even exist after awhile in my thinking. If
they have a lot of neat toys my rejection takes quite a while to set in
though.