Well I'm gonna try and get ahold of him..this is ridiculous.

What? did you see my post? I'm picking it up tonight!!

Funny, you ask others not to scoop you, but you just did that to me. Ask the guy if in fact he was talking to me. His name is Manny, mine is Andre. Would you do the right thing if he tells you I was before you?

And no.. I would not ship it across the country just to re-sell it. I have been looking for one for years. There is one in Edmonton but it was converted, and the guy won't sell anyways.

What? I made a deal with the seller 1.5 hrs before I posted - Ask Steph. What are you talking about?

Hey Subby... what is the time on the PM I sent you over at cgcc asking if you could pick up a game for me? I also had a post on asking someone to pick this up under the shipping section here, but pulled it down after I saw your post. It had a bunch of views so I am sure others can back me up on that.

And Mark, I'm not implying you went out of your way and scooped me.. I'm just a little pissed to talk with this guy for half an hour about it and tell him to hold it and I will call him back after I contact a couple people and he just sells it. Its a little difficult to co-ordinate things from 3/4 of the country away in 10 minutes.

I spoke to Manny he said we have a deal. Seller indicated he doesn't have room and it needs to be gone I have his address and I'm heading there soon as phones me today/afternoon.

I'm asking respectfully that you leave it at that.

Thanks

Mark

Tester he told me I was the second person to phone him about it and I arranged all the details. I had no idea out of town guys were phoning.

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From: tester007
To: Subpacket
Posted: Sun Sep 23, 2007 2:15 pm
Subject: game found  
Hey man..might have found a computerspace out in Kitchener. Can you help me out on this? I would be mucho in your debt.. send ya a Tron pcb set, a vector pcb of your choice????..or cash? or something else I may have you need.

Its a private sale so they would be useless in doing anything with it I would think.  

Andre, I feel your pain.

Unfortunately in this hobby, sellers (especially non-collectors) will usually take the easy way out. The result is that the first one to pull up with money and a truck wins. We've all been in that position before.

From a seller's perspective "a bird in the hand" is only fair, particularly if they're practically paying you to take it away. And of course tester007 has sour grapes and is in mourning, but his beef is with the seller, not Mark.

A couple times now I've had sellers who've said "well I have this guy interested in Outernowheresville that wants to see some pictures or send a friend around and arrange shipping, but that's a pain for me, and I haven't heard from him in a day or two, but if you want to make me a fair firm offer now and come pick it up tonight..." (sorry Gory!) I think that's only fair.  I think it's also only fair if someone comes along, offers more and scoops a deal not yet sealed.  That's business. You snooze, you lose.  What isn't kosher is when sellers make a firm promise to sell and then reneg or try to up the price - but the trick is that you don't give them the chance to.  You take the chance and send a deposit by email, know which members are in the area that would do the favour, or take a day off and haul *ss to do the pick-up asap. Anything less seems negligent.

Man that is one butt ugly cab.