🚀 go-pugleaf

Everybody has the right to post whatever price he wants.  Its a free
country and you decide the profit that suits you best.

Remember though that the .forsale newsgroup is not only made for
sellers but also for buyers.

Everybody has the right to warn others of rip-offs!

And myself for one, I am glad that I don't have to check and double
check every time I want to buy something from the net because rip-offs
like the one you tried to do (not on purpose I hope) are promptly
detected and brought to the open.  If you really did not know the
actual value of your modem, just apologize and give a reasonable one.

-marios

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In article <2gk158$444@divot.umiacs.umd.edu> pr@umiacs.umd.edu (Jesus M. Rodriguez) writes:

   >!!!!ZOOM 2400 modem ext.			$60.00 OBO

   [stuff deleted]
   >!!
   >!!I'm really tired of people telling others that their prices are too high.
   >!!The reason I do it, is for giving me some room for bargaining. If one is
   >!!interested in buying it, and they think the price is too high, then they can
   >!!make an OFFER! hence the OBO after the $60.00!	[Jesus]
   >!
   >!Don't be ridiculous and begin by posting a reasonable price, it's a waste
   >!of time otherwise. I would not even think about making an offer to someone
   >!that has a price twice or three times as much of what the article should be 
   >!worth...
   >
   >On the other hand, sometimes the seller does not know what the
   >current new price is. So, if you are interested in the article
   >talk to them and say ....Egghead has it new for xxxx how about
   >xxxx/2 since there is no warrenty etc..... You might just buy it
   >at a very good price!
   >
   >Dave Rogers

   Thank you Dave.  When I originally made the price for that post I didn't know
   the going rate for the modem.  I did see it for $75 in Computer Shopper, so
   I made it $60.00 in hopes that someone might offer me $40 or something.  SO
   far everything else I was selling went that way, so why not the modem.

   And I do believe that a private email is the best way to tell someone their
   price is too high, instead of plastering it all over usenet.

   Jesus M. Rodriguez
   pr@umiacs.umd.edu











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