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billb
Since time immemorial, the powerful have used religion to distract
the oppressed, to encourage them to focus on the next world so that
they will acquiesce to the injustices of this world. If you would
have your slaves remain docile, teach them hymns.
<Pinthetic@gmail.com> wrote in message
news:1127373574.265960.74810@g44g2000cwa.googlegroups.com...
> This isn't a story about an actual "seller", but a wanna be "quick
cash
> scam artist".
>
> I sold a junker Night Rider to a guy for $100. He wanted a
project,
> and it definately was.
>
> About a three months later I get a call from a guy, who got my
number
> from a local vendor. He had a "very rare" Night Rider that he
would
> "sacrifice" for a grand. He would ask more but it's not working
right
> now, but should be an easy fix. The game is worth much more.
>
> The vendor told him I was looking for "a game". I asked him how
long he
> had it and he said about 10 years. He said it was in pristine
shape
> for it's age. When I asked him how I could see it, he said he
would
> bring it right over because he knew I would want it once I seen it.
> OK. I gotta see this and make this yo-yo work.
>
> He shows up with the game, three legs, cut power cord, and no
> backglass. I looked at it and I asked him, "isn't there supposed be
be
> a glass with artwork in the backbox"? First he said this model did
not
> have one. Then he acted like he mis-understood and told me he
lent it
> to a friend to take a picture of it and he would drop it off next
week.
> He then started to tell me how the artwork was done and how all
the
> parts were still available. He said he cut the power cord, for
safety
> reasons, so no one would try to play it until it was fixed because
it
> could damage the expensive circuit boards inside. ?
>
> He then told me, he was told, it used a standard "apple cpu" which
made
> it highly desirable and easily repaired. Nothing can hurt those!
He
> just contradicted himself.
>
> This was the game I sold months before as a project to someone else
for
> $100. This moron did not even look at the sticker on the
trayliner.
> It had my phone number on it.
>
> I finally got tired of screwing with the guy and told him I knew
the
> games history, showed him my sticker on the trayliner, and told him
he
> was full of mularky. He got pissed, called me a bunch of names,
and
> drove off.
>
> I called the guy I sold it to. He told me he sold it to a guy for
$25
> at his garage sale. He broke the backglass so he decided to just
get
> rid of it.
>
> I love this hobby! It's so entertaining, even when they don't
work.
>
> Mario
> Pinthetic
>
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