From: magundi@gaul.csd.uwo.ca (john macdonald)
Subject: Re: *JOHN MACDONALD-REPLY TO THIS POST!*
Organization: Computer Science Dept., Univ. of Western Ontario, London, Canada
Distribution: misc
Date: Sat, 22 Aug 1992 04:19:36 GMT

In article <1992Aug21.220811.14577@vax5.cit.cornell.edu> pfmj@vax5.cit.cornell.edu writes:
>John MacDonald-
>This post is from PFMJ@VAX5.cit.cornell.edu

Hi Seenu, you ignored my mail for weeks. 
Was the only way I could get your attention was by alerting people of
your questionable behaviour?

>Were do you get off harrassing me and bad-mouthing
>me in front of thousands of internet users?!?

Good question.
Some people believe that even if someone rips people off they should
not have their names put up on the net.
I have not heard anyone accuse you of ripping people off.
I think that anyone that breaks agreements and pretends that
there never was one and has other generally questionable behaviour
should not be dealing on the net.


>I don't even remember ever dealing with you!

I still have at least 8 mail messages from you in my mailbox.
I certainly wouldn't want to deal with someone that can't 
remember what they mail.


>From what you say, if God-forbid it is true, I don't think
>I broke any internet rules.

We had a legally binding agreement.
You offered to sell me something for a certain price.
I agreed to buy it and asked where I should send the money and
and how much I would have to pay for shipping.
You said you would check.
For some reason you decided to readvertise and got an offer of
more than you had agreed to sell it to me for.
I saw your posting and asked what was going on but from then on
you ignored all my mail messages for several weeks.
You finally replied saying you didn't remember ever mailing with
me.
It is perfectly reasonable to want to get as much for something
as you can.  But once you agree to sell something to someone 
at a certain price you have to stick to it.   Otherwise no
one is going to want to deal with you because YOU ARE NOT
TRUSTWORTHY.



>If I ever feel that you are harassing me again, I will
>report you and have you reprimanded by your node supervisor.

You should consider yourself lucky that I didn't contact
the staff where you have your account.  Several people wrote
me and strongly suggested that I did.  I thought that maybe
if I alerted people about your practices, you might smarten
up and stop jerking people around.


>I have had people e-mail me asking if I was trustworthy to deal with.
>I have had many satisfied customers.

Well so far I have had three unsatisfied customers write for every
satisfied customer.
You may have had many satisfied customers, but it seems to me
that there are three times as many that are not satisfied.


>As for your friend who says that I did not send him anything
>for his check, ask him why I did not hear anything from him.

It seems that you were quick to cash the check.  Slow to send
the merchandise.   I finally heard back from him and he got
what he paid for.

>I want you to reply to this so that we can put an end to this 
>foolish nonsense.

No foolish nonsense from my side.
The only way to stop your foolish nonsense is if you start acting
responsibly.
Your word is no good, or possibly you have no memory.
Either way I still advise people to deal with you with caution.

john