Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2002/08/24
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]On Saturday, August 24, 2002, at 03:40 PM, Jeffery Smith wrote: > Once you have been screwed, you get a new attitude. I have had it > happen twice now (both Russian ebay dealers). I have a new attitude. I > would still trust the LUGers, but am more discriminating with my ebay > purchases. i too was ripped off on ebay (remember the kazakhstan incident?) and am cautious, perhaps overly so. in my observation of life, COD is now extremely rare, and most sellers expect payment before shipment. the agreement i suggested to darrell jenkins, which he readily accepted, was a way to hasten getting the lens to him, which i could tell was something he really wanted, yet maintain a *structure* of security that would be mutually beneficial. i would have been extremely surprised if darrell had ripped me off, and i feel he'd feel the same way if i'd ripped him off. this way, the transaction is conducted in the open, so there's no he said/she said if there's a dispute. i didn't intend it a new LUG procedure for transactions. i simply thought of it to faciliate things between darrell and me, as we generally don't "know" each other all that well on the LUG. i generally would trust any LUGGER in a blind transaction, but i also wouldn't be offended if, as frank has mentioned, he insisted on full payment up front. - -- brad daly bwdaly@bigfatpipe.net http://www.bigfatpipe.net/~bwdaly http://www.bigfatpipe.net/~bwdaly/paw.html "I pledge allegiance to Queen Frag and her mighty state of hysteria." --Calvin and Hobbes "War, what is it good for? It's good for business." --Billy Bragg Bruce Springsteen not only cares about America, he is America, and what's even better, he understands just how fucked up it is and has always been to be an American, the ridiculous mix of the grand and pathetic, the painfully self-aware and the mockworthy clueless spiritual state that has gotten us so far ahead and so sadly behind the rest of the world. --Joey Sweeney - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html