Who's naive? Suggesting prices too high - when anyone can look prices up on the net for the items new - simply won't bring any sales. If it does, more fool the buyer for not checking around on the net. "Innocent, well-meaning members" - idiots more like - that's what's implied by the protest on behalf of such innocent, well-meaning members: we can't work out a rip-off for ourselves; we need protecting by good-natured fellow expat list members. B*ll**ks.
________________________________ From: peter stark <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Sent: Friday, 23 January, 2009 21:01:56 Subject: Expat List re sales items Vasili, Unfortunately, your letter smacks of naivete: we 'foreigners'--and many of us have been to many places--do not care to be taken for suckers, as we so often are assumed we are. This expat list is for the innocent, well-meaning, members and not for blood-suckers ready to take advantage of our innocent, foreign ways. It's a little like having your favourite watering-hole filled with piranhas; so I understand people who are grossly insulted by those accessing the lists to sucker us. I resent it, too. The only reason I bothered to read into this topic is because I'm planning to sell many of our goods, too, before leaving this Fall, and I wanted to gage what things were going for. Obviously, I don't have to scroll back and find the original letter because the persons offerings were not--how shall I put it--dishonest? So you see...courtesy is a fine thing, but so is a hardy response against those trying to trick us and insult our intelligence, don't you think? Yours truly, Peter S. ________________________________ Turn email contacts into buddies, and you could win. Enter today.
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