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- From: jeh@cmkrnl.com
- Newsgroups: misc.forsale.computers.d
- Subject: Re: QUESTION ABOUT BUYING THROUGH THE NET
- Message-ID: <1993Jan10.130909.1120@cmkrnl.com>
- Date: 10 Jan 93 13:09:09 PST
- References: <1ijctlINNrfo@shelley.u.washington.edu> <1993Jan9.015021.629@sed.stel.com> <1io9djINNh29@shelley.u.washington.edu> <1ipedhINNl97@jhunix.hcf.jhu.edu>
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- Organization: Kernel Mode Consulting, San Diego, CA
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- In article <1ipedhINNl97@jhunix.hcf.jhu.edu>, hsu_wes@jhunix.hcf.jhu.edu (Wesleyan Hsu) writes:
- > I agree. What's so hard about keeping to a promised deal? What ticks me
- > off is how it appears I have made an agreement with someone and they back
- > out. By this time, after I've told my lower offers, they have dropped out
- > of the auction, and now I have no offers.
-
- I've been guilty of this once or twice. In both cases it happened when
- something was offered that sounded good -- but after I made an offer to buy, I
- found out something that makes it not as attractive.
-
- What I've done since then is, anytime I'm not sure about something, go ahead
- and make the offer but say "This is provisional; I need to find out something;
- I'll get back to you by [day], and if you get a firm offer before then, go
- ahead and sell it to them."
-
- So far no one has complained about this approach, but if anyone has what they
- think is a better way of handling this situation, please let us all know.
-
- --- Jamie Hanrahan, Kernel Mode Consulting, San Diego CA
- Internet: jeh@cmkrnl.com, hanrahan@eisner.decus.org, or jeh@crash.cts.com
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