>Dear Vanagon Club Members, > >We would like to present our version of the complete story on Melissa's van. [snip] >Melissa stated that she was a college professor at ( I believe ) Eastern >Michigan University. She did not appear illiterate or mentally handicapped >in any way that would lead us to believe she required "extra" special >consideration. She appeared to be about 30 years old. > >We did not ask her to sell it to us, we did not set the selling price, we >did not charge her anything, and we did not force her to buy it from us. > >Why all this mis-information? > >Most colleges and some high schools offer a course called Economics 101. I >hear it is worthwhile. I would think it would be required by anyone in the >teaching profession. [snip] Sorry, but it's the patronising tone in the above extract which does it for me. I've been on this list for about 2 years now & I've never seen any of the usual list vendors (BD, Ken, Bob, etc..) resort to this kind of behaviour. Has someone forwarded on Kevin's response to the other VW lists? I think others need to see this .... Regards, Pete C (still dealing with the list vendors tho' I'm no longer in the US) '88 Wolfie -- Peter Cassidy, pcassidy@apple.com Sr. Test Dev. Engineer +353-21-284316 WW Operations Apple, Cork. |
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