Really! Here we all are ...sharing knowledge and wisdom
for free...and this guy doesn't even offer up to the list first.
sorry...but I just have to say.... HOW IGNORANT!
Paul Tegler wizardz@toad.net http://www.teglerizer.com
OBie - '73 BGT - daily driver
http://www.teglerizer.com/mgstuff/ob_description.htm
Punkin' - '78 Spitfire - corner ripping screamer
http://www.teglerizer.com/triumphstuff/spit78.htm
Lil' Greenee - '73 RWA Midget - lady killer
http://www.teglerizer.com/midgetstuff/index.html
-----Original Message-----
From: Tony Gordon <tgordon@saginaw-city.k12.mi.us>
To: bethken@erols.com <bethken@erols.com>
Cc: triumphs@autox.team.net <triumphs@autox.team.net>
Date: Sunday, March 26, 2000 7:09 PM
Subject: Re: Air Shocks for Triumph Spitfire GT6 Corvette
>
>Ken,
>
>As a lister, and an eBay buyer and seller, I am not sure that I like the
>list being used to point me towards eBay for something that you haven't
>even asked the list if they are interested in buying.
>
>We know that the list has representatives of the big 3 plus a number of
>other small parts companies (you often see their commercial taglines in
>their replies to questions), but I never see them "selling or promoting"
>what they have on offer.
>
>It's not that I mind listers trying to clear out useable items that could
>help a fellow enthusiast down the way (and I've picked up items just that
>way), and I don't mind folks putting stuff on eBay where the return might
>be higher (and if I'm interested, I'll look there for stuff anyway), but I
>do resent listers using my bandwidth to advertise unashamedly wares that
>they want to sell in a different forum.
>
>Incidentally Mark B. does run a list just for folks to sell items -
>autojumble - and he encourages folks to advertise anything they want to
>sell as blatently as they like on that list (for obvious reasons).
>
>How about offering items for sale to the list in the future, and then put
>the stuff on eBay or Autojumble if nothing happens? That way, we get the
>chance of acquiring your treasures, and making them ours, and you can feel
>like you're helping fellow listers.
>
>I apologise for seemingly taking you, personally, to task on this matter -
>you are not the first by any means, nor will you be the last, to post eBay
>ads to the list, but the message earlier in the Digest where a lister had
>made a point of first using the list to sell items really struck home, and
>then, blow me down, your message was in the same digest!
>
>A corollary thought, if there is one, is directed to the list in general,
>and seeks thoughts on what forms of sales pitch are acceptable on the list
>to users. Any thoughts from the great and and good? Am I just be too picky
>once more? Is the answer really 42?
>
>(Dave M. - is this 1, 2 or 3 layer NmX one?)
>
>Tony Gordon
>72 TR6
>80 Spit
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