[meteorite-list] Ebay sale tonight.

[MeteorHntr at aol.com]

Mike,

My bad.  I should  have written in my last post that my reply was all just a 
joke.  Or at  least I could put in a wink ;-) so people would know it was a 
joke.   

Of course nothing in your post was a gimmick.

Next time I will  put something in the Subject line saying that a joke is 
enclosed so no one will  be confused.

Steve #1


In a message dated 5/1/2008 1:50:36 P.M.  Central Daylight Time, 
meteoriteguy at yahoo.com writes:
Sorry Steve, 
facts  are not gimmicks.

This is my sale day, one of the 7 of the week it  must
be, so is there a day which you can enlighten me of
that is not  "gimmick" day?
I use two usernames to seperate my items (can you
keep  track of my usual 50 to 80 items a week) it is my
system to divide auctions  into two batches, that way
when someone paypals me for item X, I know from  my
system that it is in drawer X.  idont have to search
60 micros for  one piece, but 30, thus much faster. 
No gimmick, no scam (cant figure out  how that might be
a scam) just a system I use to divide sales up  for
easier listing. I have been doing the same exact sales
and usernames  for more than 10 years, nothing
confusing about it.

Your "Gimmmick" as  I called it, is a confusing
"reverse" sale, which does not make sense,  you
yourself say it "hurts the seller" well, rational
people want to make  money, not give things away. 
It is a gimmick to do things in an off the wall  way
which confuses people and makes the whole buying
process harder to  understand. 

It was discussed on the internet, people were trying
to  figure out even what kind of sale it was, that my
friend, is the classic  definition of "GIMMICK".

The mortgage crisis in the USA right now is a  product
of mortgage "gimmicks" to confuse people, let more
people in on  the action, and make things harder than
they are. Now the scheme has  collapsed.

Put your things on ebay, let them end where they  end,
simple, anyone can figure it out, and it is the way
99.9% of auctions  are done, thus NOT A GIMMICK. 

This humor is not that funny  Steve.

Michael Farmer


--- MeteorHntr at aol.com  wrote:

> In a message dated 5/1/2008 12:48:22 P.M. Central
>  Daylight Time,  
> meteoriteguy at yahoo.com writes:
> 
>  Hello again, it is that day of the week, EBAY day!
> 
> >"Ebay  Day"???   Gimmick
> 
> 
>  http://www.meteorite.com/farmer/
> 
> See the link above   linking all of my auctions from
> both of my ebay usernames. 
>  
> >Two Ebay Names???  Gimmick
> 
> I have some  wonderful pieces  ending this week,
> many goodies, take a look, many  are still
> at one  cent.
> > "Wonderful," "many goodies,"  "take a look,"  "many
> are still  at one cent"  
>  Gimmick, gimmick, gimmick, gimmick!
> 
> 
> Michael   Farmer
> 
> 
> ;-)
> 
> Steve Arnold #1
>  
> P.S.  For those of you that  are humor-challenged,
>  that ;-) "wink" at the 
> end, indicated a joke.  This  email  was a joke. See,
> Mike called my desire to 
> sell on Ebay as a  "gimmick" the  other day, so I
> thought it would be funny to  
> respond to his email with the same  thing, although
> as you  can see I tastefully 
> left out the personal bent in my   post.   If people
> fail to find the humor in 
> this, I  will next time put  "WARNING JOKE INCLOSED"
> in the subject line so  you 
> will all be forewarned.   But I am hoping most of
>  you will have seen the humor 
> in the post without even  the need  for this lengthy
> postscript. 
>  
> 
> 
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