PUTZ
9 January 2006, 00:00
You know, this may turn into a blog yet. Just a thought.
I don’t know how many of you belong to email list or what not. I don’t. Well one. LEM, or Low End Mac, http://lowendmac.com/ I have a love of old macs, and puck mice so I thought it be a nice thing to have on hand, a channel of which I could satisfy all those weird mac cravings of mine.
Everything was going along swimmingly. I put a listing for my ibook on there with its ebay link on it. I had looked to see what ibooks of my config and model were going for, I put the median price and an accurate description on it and just bebopped on my way.
I had a couple of email offers, although I wanted the auction to be over before I replied to anybody. If the thing didn’t sell, I was going to give it to Hal who emailed me a good offer, and he was nice so, hey, everything was going well. I wasn’t out to cheat anybody, or do anything of the sort. So, I was happy.
Well, you know me. I attract every bottom feeder that has an internet connection so I had an email from Reavok, some one who lowballed a price at me:
From: Reavok@xxxxx
Subject: Re: [swap] FS: 12” G3/800 ibook
Date: January 9, 2006 3:08:04 PM CST
To: duh@mac.com
I’ll offer $280 shipped for the unit.
And I said “no. thanks anyway”… I thought that was polite and congenial of me. You know me, I’m a motherfucking Emily Post.
He wrote me back. Oh, joy:
From: Reavok@xxxxx
Subject: Re: [swap] FS: 12” G3/800 ibook
Date: January 9, 2006 3:41:56 PM CST
To: duh@mac.com
It’s not moving at your $350 starting price on eBay. What do you suggest?
You know, one never knows what’s its going to do on ebay. And I didn’t know I was suppose to suggest anything. So I pop off just that.
Then old Beavis emails me and accuses me of underhandedness.
From: Reavok@xxxxx
Subject: Re: [swap] FS: 12” G3/800 ibook
Date: January 9, 2006 3:41:56 PM CST
To: duh@mac.com
Because you want to sell the machine. Why would you NOT suggest a price?!
Oh, because you’re afraid that if you state a price you’ll miss out on some
uninformed idiot who might offer you a few dollars more than the going
price…I remember that trick. I thought we had eliminated this bull from
the SWAP list.
I call him a chowderhead. He emails back about sitting on my thumbs keeping them moist which I wholely don’t understand. I would think sitting on your thumbs WOULD make them moist, well, because on a girl, down below, there is a big ole opening where moisture is. I think he’s a maroon, and yes, I call him one.
So now its degrading into a email thingy. Sigh. I don’t know why the mentally retarded are drawn to me. And you know, I really don’t need yet another way for them to email me.
Why would one immediately assume that you are pulling bullshit? Just because I didn’t want his lowball offer? Just because I assumed that the price on the ebay auction would indicate my minimum price for the ibook?
That’s why I hate the internet. It demonstrates that people you think shouldn’t exist, are, in fact, alive and kicking.
People suck. And I am provided with proof of that everyday.
