Klarinet Archive - Posting 000804.txt from 2004/03

From: "mark" <cpaok@------.com>
Subj: Re: [kl] Re: He's Everywhere...YES really
Date: Sun, 14 Mar 2004 10:56:11 -0500

Oh & why should "single women" be excluded from Walter's rules?

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From: "Patricia A. Smith" <arlyss1@------.net>
To: <klarinet@------.org>
Sent: Sunday, March 14, 2004 9:44 AM
Subject: Re: [kl] Re: He's Everywhere...YES really

> mark wrote:
>
> >Walter, I have no problem with your desire to let everyone know your
particulars. That's your personal business. I have a real problem when you
suggest that personal information be posted on a webpage for someone else's
auction. That info may aid you, but it certainly will not aid THAT user.
> >
> I'm not sure I follow you here Mark. My take on what Walter is saying
> is, simply put, that if a person is honest, they will have no need to
> hide direct contact information, and they will have no need to hide
> behind multiple "handles" or whatever you call them.
>
> I certainly do not think Walter means that, for example, single women
> living alone should post their address for all and sundry to read &
> stalk! I have done business with & communicated with Walter for some
> time over several years. He is an intelligent man with not only a great
> deal of knowledge of clarinet mouthpieces and the clarinet mechanism and
> intricacies of manufacture; he also is a man of good, common sense.
> IMO, what I believe Walter is calling for is simply straightforward
> honesty on the part of people who are selling things. I can agree with
> that.
>
> If someone is straightforward and honest with me when I contact them to
> purchase an item (as Walter and Sue BOTH were - in fact Sue was willing
> to take two checks over two months for the clarinet I bought! YAY Sue!)
> then I find doing business with them a pleasure, and I will recommend
> them to people. Another person I bought from - and this time, it was on
> e-bay, though NOT a large item - was mike marmer (I don't know if it was
> his real name). I bought a box of reeds. I got what I paid for, and
> Mr. Marmer is an honest seller, if he does do a bit of volume. I do NOT
> know him personally, but I've seen him on this lis and I would say that
> if you buy reeds from him, you will get what you order. I received the
> information I needed to pay for the reeds and I did so.
>
> But reeds are NOT a large item, as is a clarinet, and I do feel, just as
> a personal point of view, that I would rather not buy from someone who
> is unwilling to let me know their real name so I can check them out with
> the Better Business Bureau, etc. if I were to so desire (don't worry
> Walter, Sue - I didn't feel the need in your case! The FBI and CIA said
> you were clean and that was enough for me! *G*)
>
> Patricia Smith
>
>
>
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