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- From: mark@cheers.jsc.nasa.gov (Mark Manning)
- Subject: Thoughts....
- Message-ID: <1992Nov6.154715.10016@aio.jsc.nasa.gov>
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- Organization: Simulacron I
- Date: Fri, 6 Nov 1992 15:47:15 GMT
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- After replying to the "RE:Vincent Poy....Please Reply!" thing I got
- to thinking about something. I know this isn't a discussion place,
- but I feel this topic deserves some thought.
-
- I've sold several things through the Usenet (and plan to sell a lot
- more) but I've always been struck by the fact that some people treat
- sales here like they would over the counter sells. In other words:
- Immediate gratification versus later gratification. And I was
- wondering if anyone else had noticed this?
-
- To me, Usenet sales are three week sales at the minimum (7 days to
- send/receive a check, 7 days to process the check, and 7 days to
- receieve/send the item). What with the normal life style of many
- people being one of: working very hard at work, coming home
- exhausted, and then maybe working on their own projects before
- falling into bed; the weekends are the only time for extra things
- like depositing money, wrapping things up to be mailed, and mailing
- things off. So when people say they sent a check a week ago and
- haven't heard anything from the other person, or the other person
- has cashed the check but not responded and it has been a week; I have
- to sit back and wonder whether - in this age of nanoseconds - we
- aren't rushing things a bit too much.
-
- What do you think?
-
-