13 Jun
2000
13 Jun
'00
5:38 a.m.
Mike Ford wrote:
This can work both ways too though, I was at one establishment (unnamed)
trying to get a working Apple II floppy drive, so I offered to bring in my own
apple and test each of their drives, provided I could buy one of the working
ones at the "As is" price!
Of all the drives I could find in the store, only 3 worked. but now
Mr.StoreGuy has a pile of "Tested-BAD" drives! (Well good for steppermotors
anyway)
Mike Ford
wrote:
So far it is just about any place where the "boss" directly handles all
transactions. Most of the time you can use your Jedi mind powers on the
weak minded employees who could give a rats anyway, even if they bleat
pitifully about you can't do that while you go ahead and do it. The boss,
who is saavy to the change in value from untested to tested, doesn't work
that way. The classic drive me nuts variety is when I make a deal on a
pallet, work two hours stripping parts, then have the owner want me to pay
by the part like they were in some display case at a retail store.
Since I didn't see it mentioned in this "look before you buy" thread,
many of the vendors I deal with will quote a price on an item
basically AS IT SITS. If I choose to test the device, it now changes
into either a "working" or "nonworking" thing from a AS-IS thing,
and
so changes the price.
That'd be Schrodinger's Store?