[TenTec] Is this how it is done today?

[W5VPU at aol.com]

Hey, Bill:

I don't know quite how to take your rebuttal.  Apparently I have rubbed your 
fur the wrong way. Are you sure you understood me?

How do you say this kind of deal never happens? It actually did occur. How 
can we tell Chip this NEVER happens, when in actuality it did happen to him.? I 
understood Chip to ask a questioin: "Is this how it is done today?" I believe 
I answered the question accurately. "Sometimes it happens, it is rare, but 
sometimes it does happen. And it is not predicatable."

In today's world you never know you have a done deal until you have paid the 
money, you have the radio you think you purchased in your hand, you plug it 
in, and it works as described or advertised. 

Ours is a world of imperfect people. Many times the trade works. Rarely it 
doesn't. No need for us to say it NEVER happens. I don't want it to occur, I 
prefer total honesty in all venues, but I don't find that kind of idealism in the 
world where I have to live. 

I am not defending the advertiser who did not deliver to Chip in what, like 
you, I believe was a sale and not an auction. Apparently you do think I am 
defending the seller's right to change his mind. If you do think that of me, you 
have misunderstood me completely. I do not trade that way. In fact I trade 
very, very little. 

But I believe my answer is accurate as to what occurs in today's world. "It 
is what it is."

73         Raymond                W5VPU