On Mon, 17 May 1999 w8au@sssnet.com wrote:
> You know the answer to this one. He had an "unfair advantage" because his
> ticket was marked "FLEAMARKET." He bought a space and therefore gets to
> "deal" long before us common folk.
> This is no secret.... it's been done for many years. That's life...
Ah! But, unlike many, I have some ethics and did not buy a thing until
after the official opening which was supposed to be 8am. Unfortunately, I
had no idea that the fire marshall was on some ego-trip and held up the
gates until about 8:20! Actually, I was told that he thought there were
too many vendors still driving vehicles in the fleamarket. I'm not sure
why he then held up the opening of the main halls until 10:15 or so.
I know the feeling you express, though. Nobody is supposed to sell
anything until Thursday. A couple weeks ago I told the QRP-L that there
would be a vendor selling those Weller soldering stations for $25. That
vendor "sold" ALL of those stations on Thursday to other flea-market
sellers, who resold them on Friday for $39! I saw a TON of them.
It was incredibly fortunate for me to even have slowed down to peek into
that guy's car. Had there been a couple people standing in front of it, I
would have merrily waltzed past, and one of you other guys (probably
Steve, because he's the only other person that would have known what the
Model 200 was) would be crowing about it.
73! =paul= W8KC
Collector of Ten*Tecs and other fine plastics
<http://www.acs.oakland.edu/~prvalko>
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