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***COINS NO LONGER FOR SALE***

#4967
From: Teri Baukal
Date: Tue, 10 Jan 1995 21:53
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Since there are so many people who hate me for selling my
late husband's coin collection without any knowledge about
coins, I've decided to stop selling them through the net.

I've gotten some really sick e-mail in the past few days
as well as *death threats* (that's right, death threats,
from three people) and I have contacted authorities
to have these guys tracked down. I will at this point do
whatever is legally necessary to see that they cease
and desist this harrassment. 

It's a really sad thing that the Internet is available
for people to benefit from and, although there are
plenty of liars and cheats out there, as soon as someone
posts something that's not 100% acceptable to everyone
on the net, you all swoop down on each other like a
bunch of vultures.

Kind of an indication of the sad state of our society
in general.

Although there have been some people who simply tried
to give me some "constructive criticism" (which was
really unnecessary anyway), the real flamers obviously
have nothing better to do than to make other people
miserable. It's a game to them and I think they do
this to everyone because they're just plain bored.

Well, it's no big loss since I managed to sell about
75% of the coins I had (the net is not the only media
by which I've been selling my coins, by the way).

To those of you who have already placed orders or have
payments in the mail, I will still send you the
coins you ordered. But I will not be accepting any new
orders.

I will, however, continue to sell my Barbie doll
collection. I can't imagine anyone would have a problem
with that because this is something I'm knowledgeable
about, and I've been selling them for the past year
with not even one complaint. I also have plenty of
letters or praise, thank you's, referrals, etc. just
in case anyone decides to switch gears from my coin
collection to my Barbie collection. But I suppose
no matter what I do, it's inevitable that one crazy
person will start a flame war because I misspelled
a word in my ad or something stupid like that.

I apologize to anyone who I offended except those who
were downright nasty to me.

Now that I'm no longer selling my coin collection
through the net, is everyone happy? Can we stop the
flames and the harrassing e-mail?

Thank you,
Teri
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From: teri@ATVL.Research.Panasonic.COM (Teri Baukal)
Subject: ***COINS NO LONGER FOR SALE***
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