Date:         Wed, 17 Jul 1996 00:46:20 -0500
Sender:       Vanagon Mailing List <vanagon@vanagon.com>
From:         bighouse@socomm.net (Ken Hooper)
Subject:      Re: List Vultures/Parts Dealers and the List


>There is simply no way an everyday listie can buy a bargain in competition
>with a parts dealer and I am disgusted that the list is being preyed on like
>this, as I said, vultures!

>Bottom line...  think carefully before you post a forsale here in the
>bargain basement range.  You may not be helping someone like yourself 10
>years ago, you may be helping a parts company fatten it's inventory and
>profits.  Sorry this list has come to this state, even though 99% of us are
>operating under the best of unselfish intentions.

It was not my impression that the gentleman who advertised the vehicle was
out to help a wannabuser. It was my impression that he wanted get rid of
the truck quickly. He was, of course, free to refuse to sell it to anybody
but a wannabuser if he wished--but he didn't. Apparently the seller got
what he wanted.

Did Ron defraud somebody? Claim to be something he wasn't? Take something
somebody else had paid for? Promise not to split the truck?

Pretty much anybody can come up with $150 (which was the reason the bus was
signifigant in the first place), and if he can't, it isn't Ron Salmon's
fault. And it's common in the States, at least, for people to call their
insurance agents on the phone and arrange for temporary insurance on a car
they're buying that day. I don't understand how garage space figures into
it at all.

Ron got it because he got there first. I cannot understand why you think
anybody behaved badly. The deal was consensual. Nobody was defrauded of
anything he had a right to expect. Nobody broke any laws. Nobody broke any
list rules, or even stretched them. Nobody told any lies.

Nobody did anything wrong.

--Ken
  68 Westy, 71 Bus