meo3@jaguar.ucs.uofs.edu (OGRINZ MICHAEL E) (04/09/91)
Ok, here's the first update on the auction. I wasnt going to enter this so soon, but maybe it'll stop the flood of $5 bids to my account :) Our highest bid after 1 day: $200 for the complete system. Other offers worth mentioning: $75 for the color digitizer. Now, for those of you who missed out, now's your chance to send me a bid on the following system. The highest bid as of April 22 takes the lot. To recap, the package is: Atari 520St w/1Meg & Mouse Color Monitor Mono Monitor Indus DS/DD drive 5 1/4" 360K/720K drive Color Digitizer (ComputerEyes) SCSI controller card w/ cable & software Lots of software (mostly games) ------------------------------------------ Mike
6600hien@ucsbuxa.ucsb.edu (Hien Le) (04/10/91)
In article <409@platypus.uofs.edu> meo3@jaguar.ucs.uofs.edu (OGRINZ MICHAEL E) writes:
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My bid for a hard drive is $50.geoffc@zebedee%tharr.uucp (Geoffrey Coan) (04/15/91)
In article <409@platypus.uofs.edu> meo3@jaguar.ucs.uofs.edu (OGRINZ MICHAEL E) writes: (Sender was: news@platypus.uofs.edu) > Path: zebedee!tharr!axion!ukc!mcsun!uunet!ukma!asuvax!ncar!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!swrinde!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!unix.cis.pitt.edu!dsinc!netnews.upenn.edu!platypus!jaguar.ucs.uofs.edu > Ok, here's the first update on the auction. I wasnt going to enter this > so soon, but maybe it'll stop the flood of $5 bids to my account :) > ... etc This is not an attack on this sender per se, but on the people who send out 'please buy my xxxxx box' type articles in general. Why, oh why, do people not realise that comp.sys.atari.st is an INTERNATIONAL news forum and it is highly unlikely that people outside of their locality will want to buy what they are offering. In the UK we have a distribution of 'uk' to restrict where articles get sent to - I assume there are similar country and county/state sized distributions in the rest of the world. It's not too much to ask is it ... ? Geoffrey -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- are you ready to SKYDIVE ?? Geoffrey Coan well all right then, if you say so ... ..!ukc!axion!tharr!zebedee!geoffc <- UUCP'd from my ST via tharr; *free* UK public access to Usenet 0234 720202 ->
bcasper@taco.cc (Brian Casper) (04/19/91)
In article <2275044@zebedee%tharr.uucp> geoffc@zebedee%tharr.uucp (Geoffrey Coan) > Why, oh why, do people not realise that comp.sys.atari.st is an INTERNATIONAL > news forum and it is highly unlikely that people outside of their locality > will want to buy what they are offering. In the UK we have a distribution of > 'uk' to restrict where articles get sent to - I assume there are similar > country and county/state sized distributions in the rest of the world. I, an American, sold my PC-Ditto II to someone in Singapore - via this wonderful INTERNATIONAL news forum. He was the highest bidder, the shipping was only slightly higher than it would have been within the US, and the sale went flawlessly. > It's not too much to ask is it ... ? Yes. -- Brian Casper bcasper@eos.ncsu.edu NCSU - Project EOS (witty .sig pending)
gjh@hplb.hpl.hp.com (Graham Higgins) (04/22/91)
++ I, an American, sold my PC-Ditto II to someone in Singapore - via this ++ wonderful INTERNATIONAL news forum. He was the highest bidder, the shipping ++ was only slightly higher than it would have been within the US, and the sale ++ went flawlessly. Interesting, how did the purchaser manage to get money to you? I understood that it's remarkably expensive in the USA to receive non-US-Dollar money from abroad. Could I have sent you a cheque drawn on a British bank? ++ > It's not too much to ask is it ... ? ++ Yes. No, not if the vendor is prepared to accept either Visa or international money orders --- or if the software/hardware is supported in the destination country. Graham ====== ------------------------------------------------------------------ Graham Higgins | gjh%ghiggins@hpl.hp.co.uk Hewlett-Packard Labs | gjh%ghiggins@hplb.hpl.hp.com Filton Road, Stoke Gifford | gjh%hplb.csnet@csnet-relay.arpa Bristol, U.K. | ...!mcvax!ukc!hplb!gjh Tel: +44 272 799910 x24014 Fax: +44 272 790554 ------------------------------------------------------------------ Disclaimer: My opinions above are exactly that, mine and opinions. ------------------------------------------------------------------
silvert@cs.dal.ca (Bill Silvert) (04/24/91)
In article <GJH.91Apr22134603@ghiggins.hpl.hp.com> gjh@hplb.hpl.hp.com (Graham Higgins) writes: >Interesting, how did the purchaser manage to get money to you? I understood >that it's remarkably expensive in the USA to receive non-US-Dollar money from >abroad. Could I have sent you a cheque drawn on a British bank? Come on, this is not a problem in most cases. I frequently buy items from the US, and I suspect that the Canadian situation is not unique. We can buy money orders in US dollars from the Post Office or from most banks, and I can write cheques in US dollars on my regular bank account by simply writing US$ all over the cheque (this latter feature may not be as common). I don't think that there is any problem coming up with paper in US funds that a bank will accept, but S&L's are another matter. I tried to give my brother in the US $200 during a recent visit, and his S&L wouldn't even accept AmEx traveller's cheques in US dollars sold by a Canadian bank. So I went down the street and got the money on my bank card. But real banks (the kind that stay sovent for weeks on end) have never been a problem. -- William Silvert, Habitat Ecology Division, Bedford Inst. of Oceanography P. O. Box 1006, Dartmouth, Nova Scotia, CANADA B2Y 4A2. Tel. (902)426-1577 UUCP=..!{uunet|watmath}!dalcs!biome!silvert BITNET=silvert%biome%dalcs@dalac InterNet=silvert%biome@cs.dal.ca
bcasper@taco.cc (BRIAN CASPER) (04/24/91)
> Interesting, how did the purchaser manage to get money to you? I understood > that it's remarkably expensive in the USA to receive non-US-Dollar money from > abroad. Could I have sent you a cheque drawn on a British bank? As it turned out, he sent me a check drawn on an international bank which I sent off to the World Trade Center in New York to cash. It did cost him an extra $10 to cash, but he wanted the Ditto II bad enough that it became worth it. > ++ > It's not too much to ask is it ... ? > > ++ Yes. > > No, not if the vendor is prepared to accept either Visa or international money > orders --- or if the software/hardware is supported in the destination country. I was referring to the origional posters plea to keep these 'For Sale' posts interstate. -- Brian Casper bcasper@eos.ncsu.edu NCSU - Project EOS (witty .sig pending)