Enrico: This has got to be the most ridiculous thing I have ever heard. After being out of town for _Thanksgiving_ (I am a full-time college student and am now with family for a short break) I decided I might telnet back in and check my e-mail. Boy, am I glad I did. I wouldn't have wanted to miss you telling me that I was purposely trying to avoid you. You say in the second message from you, "I see that you are playing hard to get AGAIN." Yes, you're right, Enrico, I am scared of you (not really). Anyway, I will respond to both of your e-mails... one dated Nov 24 the other Nov 25. Boy, I certainly shouldn't have missed a day of checking my e-mail.... I'd hate to anger you for not checking the first e-mail from you immediately. In response to the e-mail dated Nov 24: you say you are unhappy with a transaction that took months to progress. You sent me an MSX (from UK), I sent you a TRS-80 Model 1. To tell you the truth, I am very unhappy with the transaction as well. First, it has been a huge pain in the rear-end bitching... just another damn ploy to stir up a little trouble? Second, a point I have never even said to you before because I figured it might have happened in shipping, etc., is the fact the damn MSX doesn't even work. I'm not going to sue you though Enrico. Next, we have you saying you are unhappy with the transaction because the computer I sent isn't the one we agreed upon. Frankly, that's a big bunch of BS. You say in this letter that I told you and the list I would send one without the numeric keyboard. If I remember correctly you asked if I could send you the first TRS-80, this is true. Then in future discussion I asked you specifically what you wanted. You said you didn't even know what you wanted, just a model 1. I sent you the damn model 1. Enrico, you know something.... I don't even have a TRS-80 Model 1 without the numeric keyboard on the right hand side. Now tell me this, why the hell would I promise to ship one to you if _I_ didn't even have one?? Common sense (which you seem to lack quite a bit of) would tell you that I wouldn't do that. Next you _claim_ the computer is cracked or some damn thing like that. Well, I can promise that when I sent it is was just fine. No cracks, screws floating around nothing. And I can also promise the thing worked just great. You know how? Because I was using it up until the time I shipped it. You sure as hell didn't even send me something that was working. How do _I_ know... because if you knew it was working you would have powered it up and it still hadn't even had a power cable hooked to it. I put the correct voltage through it, I get power, but then it dies. Again, I won't sue you, Enrito. Then you say that I didn't send the power supply and the instructions. Then you say, quote, "(yes I know I told you that I was not interested in the power supply...I did send you the instructions.) Well, you answered your own darn complaint, Enrico. You didn't want the power supply. If you say, as you did, that we were swapping the exact same thing, you didn't send me a seperate power supply. :-) You did send me a xeroxed copy of the instructions, which I appreciate... I grant you that there. But, I honestly did not realise I was supposed to send you any manuals. I certainly can copy some off I guess. Or, you might even be able to check any number of web sites that contain much, much more information that any manual I would send you contains. Next, you talk about the fact that my machine to you was sent months after I said it did. It was, and I notified you the parcel was returned to me, at my expense. I even sent you an e-mail telling yuo about this, and that I even was going to re-use your box and packing as it would not be as quite a fit as what I had previously sent it in. Plus the original boxed was stamped and labeled throughout. I didn't think it'd cause a lawsuit. Then you say for me to just put everything right and it would be forgotten. Well, I don't have anything to put right... especially not at my expense. I will agree to send you POS MSX back to you, if you'll return my Model 1. How's that? LETTER # 2 - Nov. 25 Already replied to your comments about me playign ahrd to get. Then you say I should send you the model 1 with no numeric key-pad. You say they are hard to find in the UK, but worth 2 pennies here. Well, Enrico, I don't have one, so maybe someone else on this list will gladly ship you one of those. I'm sure they'd be happy to pick up where I refuse to continue to go. You say by me doing this, that any $$$ expense I incure will certainly be worth in terms of respectibility. You threaten me by saying that, "I will expose the whole lot in public on the list and in my site, and I will also write to the major Internet zines and news sites." Well guess what, Enrico, I personally don't care. As a matter of fact, I didn't even care enough to let your shitty side of the deal bother me. I guess I'm just not a hot-headed trouble maker looking for problems. Then you say, if necessary, you will ask a judge to put this right. Go for it, buddy. I didn't do anything wrong. If anyone did anything wrong, it was you. You didn;t even have a clue as to TRS-80s or what you wanted, and that seems to be the only thing I could have (if I even had one!) made different.... you would have had complete info. on what you wanted. Enrico, I can't even express how much this whole deal is a giant crock of $%!^. It is completely unrational statements by you that make this out to be something is not. I in no way intended to make this difficult, or trick you into sending you the 'wrong' machine or anything else. I know you didn't intend that either. But, should I just run around saying you had everything to do with the problems, etc., etc.? No. I don't beleive it was anyone else fault by _our own_. That's right, I don't think it was mine, and I don't think it was yours. What comes out of this will be two little kids fighting back and forth. Frankly, I have better things to do with my time. If you don't have better things to do, well, go ahead and slander my name wherever you want to. I don't care. No one has every had any problems with me, nor have I had with them. I sit back, read the newsgroups and listservs I get, trying to add to my collection and learn. I've already learned enough from doing this that I don't want to be part of these squables that go on for months at a time. So, I say, pay our own expenses, trade back, and it'll be over. Then you can find someone else who will ship you a Model 1 with _no_ numeric keyboard and I won't have to bother with you. When I first got into contact with you about a deal like this, it was just after a huge debate between you and others. "others" were saying it was hard to do these transactions over-seas. You responded on a whole thread of messages that those people that thought it was hard to do, were nuts, and made it into some type of international war. You know what, just because of that thread, I thought I would try transcting with you just to prove all my fellow Americans wrong. I had never done it before over-seas, and thought it would be a good learning experience. I guess I wasn't able to prove my fellow Americans wrong, but I did prove it to you. And I certainly proved it to myself. Love Always, Enrico. CORD G. COSLOR P.S. has anyone else out there ever thought I was 'playing hard to get?' Didn't think so. Oh, for all you judges, internet zines, newsgroups, listservs, web sites, executioners, and anyone else that's going to hate me because of this: please, please understand I am innocent. I don't want you all to hate me, and Mr. Judge, please don't make me pay the $18 to reimburse Enrico for silly reasons.. Please, please, please.... (the above is very synical, and like I said-- it's all set right if we just swap back. SOund simple enough? Didn't think so, Enrico... we need to make it _much_ more difficult.) :-) :-) <-- those are smiley faces. Ever smile? If not, Enrico, think about it all this logically.... trust me, it will make you smile. //*=====================================================================++ || Cord G. Coslor P.O. Box 308 - 1300 3rd St. Apt "M1" -- Peru, NE || || (402) 872- 3272 coslor(a)bobcat.peru.edu 68421-0308 || || Classic computer software and hardware collector || || Autograph collector || ++=====================================================================*//