In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, David Kirkby writes: >> Not so. It just means that there are a lot of people I don't buy from. >> Most of my measurement equipment comes from eBay, and so far I've not been >> disappointed because I set my expectations reasonably. > >But a worst case is that someone will just not deliver the goods, or >give you a load of rubbish - perhaps a load of bricks!!
In which case I made sure I didn't bid more than I could afford to loose. It's all about aligning your expectations with reality. You can be incredibly lucky on ebay, but the other end of the scale is not to be unlucky, it is to be na�ve or even stupid. -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 [EMAIL PROTECTED] | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3-tahoe Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by incompetence. _______________________________________________ time-nuts mailing list [email protected] https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts
