Unfortunately, this happens all of the time in one form or another. How many times have you seen a post that states " I have <this item> for sale and what will someone give me for it?" That is nothing but an auction in disguise. Or, as you experienced, the shop owner who has to call someone who has another offer pending. The only way that I can deal with this is to either hit the <DELETE> key or walk out. Most of the time I would have purchased the item at the asking price.
Rich On Thu, 11 Mar 2004 19:48:13 EST, [email protected] wrote: ->Anyone can become an antique dealer, and some clearly cannot find anything ->else to do. In 1979, I walked into a shop and found an Edison "Standard" Model ->B with a 2&4 minute attachment. No horn, no lid, but it worked. The price ->was $110. I asked the dealer about it (planning to get the price lowered a ->bit), and she said that before she could sell it, she'd have to make a phone call. -> I stood there dazed as she asked some man on the other end of the phone line ->if he was still interested in the Edison. She dropped the phone from her ear ->and stated, "He's willing to pay $120. Do you want to outbid him?" I was ->dumbstruck. "Isn't this a pricetag on the machine?" I asked. She mumbled ->something about this man being a friend of hers. "Fine, I'll give you $130." The ->woman reported this to her "friend," paused, and told me, "He'll go $135, but ->no higher." I was barely holding on to my temper by now, and said something ->like, "Does this mean that I can REALLY buy it for $140?" She said "Yes," so I ->did. After I got home, it occurred to me that the woman might have been ->talking to a dial tone! I've never had anyone else pull a stunt like that. -> ->George Paul ->_______________________________________________ ->Phono-l mailing list ->[email protected] ->http://t2.cwihosting.com/mailman/listinfo/phono-l_oldcrank.com
