On Dec 22, 2010, at 9:26 AM, Boris Liberman wrote: >> Perhaps the lesson I should take from this is retailers, and business >> in general, are just not to be trusted: Read the fine print. >> Carefully. And they say "the market" doesn't need to be regulated? >> That we should just trust them? > > Regulated market (believe me, I lived there for 20 years) does not > immediately implies total honesty, you know...
Oh, for sure. But -- at least in theory; and in some places more in practice than others -- there is recourse. >> As for shouting angrily, with the exception of following up on the >> suggestion that I send an email to the customer advocate at Adorama, >> I think I've gotten about what I can expect from it. > > Shouting angrily would be local practice. I'm a Midwesterner, living in the South with a deep appreciation for the South's "we go along to get along" philosophy, who spent a year living and working in Manhattan in the mid 90's. I loved the City, but I was never able to convince my colleagues that there was "another way" to deal with conflict, that a "big stick" wasn't always necessarily the best way. >> I have to say my dealings with individuals on eBay have been more >> principled than this. > > IMO eBay is extremely dangerous, so don't let several positive transactions > fool you into false sense of security. I've been cautioned on that point already, but thanks for seconding it. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Eric Weir Decatur, GA USA [email protected] -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
