[GreenKeys] The answers you get over a simple request! !

[WA5CAB at cs.com]

I'll also have to say "Oops".  I meant to write something like "is often a 
synonym", but hit the wrong button and did a Send instead of putting it in 
Send Later.  However, someone who has the requested widget usually won't know 
what the requester thinks is reasonable.  Unless he's dealt with or tried 
to deal with the same person before.  So putting the phrase in the requesting 
message probably doesn't accomplish anything useful for either party.

In a message dated 10/11/2011 06:26:30 AM Central Daylight Time, 
nerd at verizon.net writes: 
> Oops.  I've put that in many posted requests for things when all I wanted 
> was to 
> actually pay a reasonable price, not some inflated epay asking price which 
> never 
> gets hit.  I've scrapped countless projects and nearly working pieces of 
> gear 
> for lack of simple parts after not being able to find them after sometimes 
> years 
> of searching.  I suppose it's either pay top dollar or be cheap, except 
> when 
> someone *offers* something for sale at a fair price.
> 
> 
> 
> On 10/11/2011 12:08 AM, WA5CAB at cs.com wrote:
> >    Furthermore, any seller knows
> >that "reasonable price" in a request for hardware is a synonym for "dirt
> >cheap to free and you pay all expenses".  I personally no longer reply to 
> any
> >post on any forum looking for something "at a reasonable price".  I just 
> hit
> >the DELETE key because the post is almost never worth wasting the time to
> >answer.
> 

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