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From: ianf@nada.kth.se (Ian Feldman)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac,comp.sys.mac.hardware,comp.sys.amiga,comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Subject: Re: Cut out the middle man! (Re: *- OLD 400K DRIVES WANTED ! -*)
Summary: The best things in life are free -- or are they?
Message-ID: <3151@draken.nada.kth.se>
Date: 17 Mar 90 04:02:32 GMT
References: <27796@cup.portal.com> <2883@castle.ed.ac.uk>
Reply-To: ianf@nada.kth.se (Ian Feldman)
Organization: Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden
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In article <2883@castle.ed.ac.uk> nick@lfcs.ed.ac.uk (Nick Rothwell) writes:
> In article <27796@cup.portal.com>, Justin_Randall_Padawer@cup writes:
>> Paying $25 plus your shipping for used, working 400K Mac drives.  If you'd
>> like to trade the antiques for cash, email us.  
>
> In article <27795@cup.portal.com>, Justin_Randall_Padawer@cup writes:
>> I have used Apple-label 400K external drives for sale.  These are the
>> older ones (400K vs. 800K) but work perfectly.  Let me know if interested.
>> Fire Sale:  $50. 
>
> Might I humbly suggest that any persons wanting to buy/sell the 400K
> floppy drives talk directly and same themselves the $25 fee by nipping
> across the street to the appropriate newsgroup?
>
> Is this what's called "free enterprise?"

  No, it is called capitalism; buying cheap and selling dear and
  let the buyer beware.  Alas, rather than asking rhetoric questions
  you should have pointed out that this kind of semi-business activity
  (buying & selling en gros) _certainly_ is not what the net is for.
  In fact, every site that has received these ought to calculate and send
  a bill for the cost of reception and storage of this J.R [sic!] Padawer's 
  obviously commercial postings to the `cup.portal.com' site administrator. 
  After all, if he insists on using the Net for his own private enterprize
  then maybe we ought to teach him a basic lesson of capital optimization
  and cost accounting.

  On the other hand, we _are_ dealing with a "J.R." type of person,
  so maybe he just taught us a lesson  ;-)

--Ian Feldman /  ianf@nada.kth.se || uunet!nada.kth.se!ianf  / "There, Watson!
             /  Obviously he is not the ImageWriter hacker we were looking for"