Date: Wed, 10 Mar 1999 05:34:59 -0800
Reply-To: frank furter <wasserbox@YAHOO.COM>
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From: frank furter <wasserbox@YAHOO.COM>
Subject: Re: '83-'84 westy striped seats for sale
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My mistake - you did pmail me. It just got lost in the deluge of
other mail.
Mark
---frank furter <wasserbox@YAHOO.COM> wrote:
>
> And what exactly are you doing? You couldn't just push delete too?
> Why did you have to post to the list? You didn;'t even give me the
> courtesy of p-mailing me to let me know your thoughts like I did for
> you.
>
> It's not pushing delete that irritates me. It's having to push delete
> 10 times where once would have sufficed.
>
> Unsolicited advertisement is my pet peeve. If you have something to
> sell, let us know. What you are (were) now doing is the equivalent of
> SPAM. No helpful content, just "Hey I have this for sale" then 30sec
> later "Hey, I have that for sale". Wouldn't it have suficed to say
> "Hey, this week I have this AND that for sale" in ONE message?
>
> I understand that you need to make your money, but maybe you should
> rethink your strategy a little. I guarantee that more people than
> have voiced their opinion are irritated by your spammail, and
> habitually delete them - even if you have something useful to say.
> Consolidate your SPAM, and it might be better received.
>
> Now my e-mail to you was polite. It was well thought out and not
> offensive in any way. It was a SUGGESTION. You had to send a
> smart-ass reply to the list to show how cool you are before my first
> cup of coffee has even kicked in. Way to go Chris - Great sales
> tactic - alienate your client-base. No wonder you have to resort to
> your current sales tactics.
> People DO respond to good salesmanship.
>
>
> ---JordanVw@AOL.COM wrote:
> >
> > In a message dated 99-03-09 13:06:40 EST, wasserbox@yahoo.com
writes:
> >
> > << Ok Chris, after deleting 10 messages, I have a suggestion.
> >
> > Would it be possible to put all the items for sale in one message,
> and
> > perhaps have a daily (or weekly) "Allentown Bus Parts" letter? I
> > don't want to put your address in my kill-file, because
> occasionally I
> > may be interested in an item you are selling, but it is kind of
> > irritating to have to delete 10-15 2 line messages.
> >
> > Food for thought
> > >>
> >
> > geez...we have it so hard these days, when pushing a little "delete"
> button is
> > so "irritating" and sets people off so much that they have to post
> their
> > bitches to the whole list instead of a p-mail....
> >
> > chris
> >
>
> ==
> Mark
>
> 87 Westfalia Gl
> 84 Scirocco 8v
>
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Mark
87 Westfalia Gl
84 Scirocco 8v
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