From: garyc@lenny.acns.nwu.edu (Gary I. Chang)
Subject: Re: FOR SALE: MAC SE/30 ( Final STOP!)
Reply-To: garyc@lenny.acns.nwu.edu
Organization: Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois, USA
Date: Tue, 1 Sep 1992 07:42:09 GMT

In article <1992Sep1.031134.26685@unixg.ubc.ca> okabe@unixg.ubc.ca (Ian  
Okabe) writes:
> 
> Yeah there was another jerk doing the same thing a month ago. He kept
> raising the price and telling people the first one who offers X dollars
> gets it. Again, and again.
> -- 

** SIGH ** You can never please everybody, I would like to stop the flame,  
please stop judging people w/o inside information. 

	It was my fault that I did not stat clearly about the exact  
configuartion and condition of the machine I sold in my origional post.  
Some took it for granted that it has 4 Megs of RAM, some thought it was  
defective, some thought its HD was damaged, and many other questions but  
no one was sure the Mac would be shiped as they expected. (I apologize for  
my incapable of providing the detail information which caused a big  
problem!) I answered the first 16+ offers one by one and explain their  
questions carefully, I want to be sure everyone understands what they are  
going to receive from me once they agree on the deal; I don't want any  
surprise for the buyer.......I was requested by almost everyone for the  
phone number. 

	Now here comes the REAL problem, I gave each and everyone a chace  
to judge whether this is exactly the system they were looking for, some  
responded real quick and said they are still interested, and someone took  
over a weekend to get back to me, some just never replied. Finally, I lost  
the order and my patience, I have no clue whom should get the 1st  
priority; many of them offer me higher bids just to get on top of the  
list. A couple of them were trying to ask me to reduce the price to $600.   
Someone punished me for setting the price too cheap and they were upset  
with my posting which jeopardize the re-sell market value of SE/30. I was  
suggested by many of them to re-claim the detail machine spec and start a  
new bid. That's why I had my 2nd post including the new deal info. I did  
not raise the price, it would still be sold as $950 if no one offer better  
price by Wensday. But I did set the upper bound for $1,100 for immediate  
release.

	If I were to play the game, I would have kept raising the price; I  
have replied to two other buyers, who offered me $1200 and $1300  
respectively, while I still had my Mac.I could have collected more money  
if I wanted to, but why? Why not just make everybody happy and stop  
getting nervous or worry on blind deal for good?  

	I feel sorry for no one else but the girl who I was so willing to  
sell the machine to. A very understanding girl who's really in need for  
the MAC for her daily homework. I appreciate for her understanding my  
reason for not being able to sell the system to her. I care no one's  
personel opinion against me, but her agreement on the same decision I made  
if she were in my shoes; I wanna thank her for re-assuring me while I  
needed it most.

	When there is no way to please everyone to keep the noise down, I  
stay away from them. I will not have further defending for myself.  
Please....STOP the flame, and save money for the net.

gary 	
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