Date: Mon, 18 May 2009 09:20:25 -0400
Reply-To: "Peter T. Owsianowski" <pnoceanwesty@GMAIL.COM>
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From: "Peter T. Owsianowski" <pnoceanwesty@GMAIL.COM>
Subject: Re: Mean Email from the Samba member
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Ken: You are a good man and a good Vendor. Don't let one idiot ruin
your day.
Thanks for all you do for the VW community.
On 5/18/09, Ken Wilford <kenwilfy@comcast.net> wrote:
> I have had my sister's 88 Westy listed on the Samba for over a year
> now. It is a very nice 88 Westy with almost exactly 100k miles on it,
> tons of work done (all documented), and Go Westy metal bumpers on it.
> Before our economic slow down I would have been able to quickly sell it
> for around $17k maybe even a little more. Since then, it is just
> sitting here and I am in no real rush to sell it. My sister is not
> financially strapped, I am not either and the van is being used about
> once a week so it isn't just sitting here rusting. This morning I get a
> taunting email from someone on The Samba scoffing at my price for the
> van and telling me that they contacted me back in December about it and
> now it is May and it still hasn't sold. In the first place, why should
> they care? In the second place December isn't the time of year that
> vans sell anyway, now is. In the third place I wouldn't sell the van to
> this idiot now for $1 million bucks. Why do people have to feel that
> they need to comment when they think your van price is too high? I have
> had this happen more than once. Another time a guy called me on the
> phone, long distance, merely to tell me that I was asking way to much
> (for a van that I sold at that price a few weeks later I might ad). Why
> do people act this way? Once I asked the person, OK how much would you
> give me for it? They had no money and no intention of buying a van,
> they just wanted to scoff and harass me about my price. I have never
> been able to figure out this kind of rude behavior. For the most part
> the VW community and Vanagon community has nice folks in it. Every once
> and a while you run into a jerky boy. I guess this guy was just this
> summer's jerky boy. Now I can relax and not worry about meeting another
> one until next spring :-)
>
> Ken Wilford
> John 3:16
> www.vanagain.com
>
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Pete
'79 Westy "Aardvark"
'87 Westy "Joe's Van"
WWW.Busesbythebeach.com
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