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- Path: sparky!uunet!psinntp!sed.stel.com!jon
- From: jon@sed.stel.com (Jon Radel)
- Subject: Re: QUESTION ABOUT BUYING THROUGH THE NET
- Message-ID: <1993Jan10.211859.8027@sed.stel.com>
- Organization: Stanford Telecom, SED, Reston
- References: <1ijctlINNrfo@shelley.u.washington.edu> <1993Jan9.015021.629@sed.stel.com> <1io9djINNh29@shelley.u.washington.edu>
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- Date: Sun, 10 Jan 93 21:18:59 GMT
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- In article <1io9djINNh29@shelley.u.washington.edu> topcat@hardy.u.washington.edu (Thanh - Vincent) writes:
- >In article <1993Jan9.015021.629@sed.stel.com> jon@sed.stel.com (Jon Radel) writes:
- >>
- >>The one that really
- >>annoyed me, however, was the person, who within 24 hours did the following:
- >>
- >>1) Got an offer from me on something originally advertised without a price.
- >>2) Accepted that offer and asked for my shipping address
- >>3) Wrote back to say that my offer had been topped, did I want to counter-offer
- >>4) Got a counter-offer from me that was higher than the then top offer
- >>5) Wrote back to say that he'd sold it.
- >>
- >>Hey folks, if you want to auction things off, try to play with a consistent
- >>set of rules that you decide on before you start. :-(
- >>
- >jon,
- >the point is that the person at least has the decently to respond to you
- >instead of letting you wait week after week for something that was never
- >sent. worse, they never to answer all the emails you sent them.
-
- Yes, I admit that he could have been an asshole about it. Everything aside
- from going back on his word, he was quite decent about it.
-
- > people
- >are entitled to change their mind as long as they let you know quickly.
- ^^^^^^^^^^^
- >in your case, the aunctioning is wrong. typically, the first guy to email
- >or call and make a reasonable offer gets the stuff. the other guys will
- >have to wait to see if the deal doesn't go through before they can get it.
- >but the thing about obo is that they want a top price.
- >if you promised to a deal, then you keep it. don't go back on your word.
- ^^^^^^^^^^^^
- Either you're contraticting yourself (Yes, you can go back on your word
- if you do it quickly---no, you can't go back on your word.) or I'm missing
- something here?
-
- --Jon Radel
- jon@sed.stel.com
-
-