3 Nov
2000
3 Nov
'00
1:13 p.m.
Chuck,
That was RUDE and totally uncalled for. Michael clearly asked for
opinions of what the EC-1 was worth. He didn't ask for offers. He could
have just as well put it directly on E-bay without saying a thing about it
on this list. If you think he was "trolling" and "had no integrity"
then
you shouldn't have made him an offer. Frankly, if I don't like someone's
methods I won't do business with them period, no matter how rare the object
or how appealing the deal is. In any event, I KNOW of the amount of several
of the offers that he recieved and they were far in excess of your's so you
wouldn't have gotten it anyway. Furthermore, I have now seen his offer to
sell it to the highest bidder on this list with an opening bid of $350 and
I KNOW that he had already recieved a bid of $350 so I feel that he is
doing the list members, and yourself, a favor by keeping the bidding to
list members only. No, I'm not going to bid on it. I have no interest in
this item other than curiousity so I think reasonably neutral in this matter.
Joe Rigdon
At 11:49 AM 11/3/00 -0600, you wrote:
Normally, I'm not a mean person.
Michael, you're an asshole.
#1 was sending out a message titled "FS: Heathkit EC-1" when you had no
intention of selling it.
#2 was forwarding private correspondence to the list where no one fucking
cares that I think you were not being completely honest in your email.
It wasn't like you didn't "know" about E-bay, after all you've got
102
people sending you feedback on how they liked the things they bought from
you there. And as a veteran seller you no doubt have researched what other
EC-1's sold for on EBay before you posted to this list.
So you deliberately trolled the list, perhaps to "generate interest" in
your future Ebay listing, and I think that sucks. I stand by my assertion
that you have no integrity.
--Chuck
At 01:09 PM 11/3/2000 -0600, you wrote:
Date: Fri, 03 Nov 2000 12:54:39 -0600
From:Michael Melland <badger(a)vbe.com>
To: Chuck McManis <cmcmanis(a)mcmanis.com>
Chuck McManis wrote:
[go back and read it if you want]