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Subject: [TenTec] Selling stuff-pet peeve
From: crrandal@earthlink.net (Cara and Randy Randall)
Date: Sat, 10 Aug 2002 16:30:24 -0500
I have had a uniformly bad 
experience with this method.

The problem I have had is this: 
you get a 

response or two or three that 
think you are the sucker.. err... person 

that will finance their kids collage 
education!   All joking aside, 

the respondents do feel that you are 
desperate and will pay a 

much higher than normal price for 
the item.   I have done 

much better waiting for the 
next item to come up and believe

it or not getting it off of 
Ebay.  The offers were that 

much overpriced!  Reminds me of 
the guy at the 

Indianapolis Hamfest that had a 
Kenwood TS-50 for sale.

The thing looked rough and had no 
options.  The seller said he 

wanted $700.00 and really didn't 
care if it sold or not!

Sine nice clean TS-50's can be 
regularly found for 

$450.00 to $500.00, I passed!   Maybe 

this is the same kind of person that 
answers my wanted ads!

 

73

Randy KB8ASO 


----- Original Message ----- 

From: Joseph Koppi  

To: Ten-Tec Reflector 

Sent: 8/10/02 0:49:01 

Subject: Re: [TenTec] Selling stuff-pet 
peeve





If you're looking for a piece of equipment, why wait until it's 
advertised

and risk missing your opportunity.  Instead, list your own 
Wanted-to-Buy ad

and solicit the piece of equipment in which you are 
interested.  That way,

you may get to pick from two or more respondents; now, suddenly, instead 
of

being one of many rushing to buy a single piece of equipment, you can be 
the

person who has the pick of the litter.

 

Joe Koppi, W0SU

St. Paul, MN

 

----- Original Message -----

From: "Carter Grabarczyk"  k8vt@ameritech.net  

To: "tentec"  tentec@contesting.com  

Sent: Friday, August 09, 2002 5:04 PM

Subject: [TenTec] Selling stuff-pet peeve

 

 

 

  Well group,

 

  I'm probably just getting grumpy in my old age and /or have too 
much

  time on my hands. Anyway, here is my pet peeve:

 

  When someone is selling something on this reflector, many times it 
is

  offered to the first one that replies. This is the problem; i.e., 
it

  becomes an e-mail race. Whose ISP is faster or goes through fewer 
links?

  Who is available to continually hover over the computer all day? 
(Heaven

  forbid if you have some kind of appointment or (gasp) actually had to 
be

  at work).

 

  I'm sure there are many ways to handle these types of sales, but 
one

  obvious suggestion comes to mind. Just post your "for sale" message, 
and

  give a cutoff date/time (2 days, 1 day, whatever). At that time, 
the

  seller just writes down the name or call of everyone interested 
and

  draws it out of a hat. Not eBay, not an auction, it just goes for 
the

  originally advertised price. Maybe not the greatest way but 
certainly

  more fair than the e-mail horse race.

 

  Flame thrower OFF

 

  73/Carter/K8VT

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