tonedeaf
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Post by tonedeaf on Apr 26, 2018 18:32:34 GMT
Saw an advert for a Sony PS4750 a 1970s Sony amp and some Tannoy speakers ( I think) for £30!!!!!!
I rang the seller and it was an old dear, said I would have them and said I'd give her £125 as she had truly undervalued them.
Her reply was I didn't know what they were worth so I put them up for £30 but sold them straightaway as guy came round immediately to collect.
My question is:-
should you do the right thing
or just think
"old fool should have done her homework" and run away laughing
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Post by MikeMusic on Apr 26, 2018 19:00:39 GMT
Maybe top up the dough when you collect.
Better goes out for the bin men
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Post by brian2957 on Apr 26, 2018 19:08:51 GMT
Couple of years ago I won a set of interconnects for £70 on Ebay which were worth nearer £800 . Again it was an older lady who hadn't listed them properly and had ended the auction in the middle of the night . The next day I called her and explained to her what they were and their value . It turned out her brother had died and she was given them to sell . She didn't have a clue what they were and how to go about selling them properly . In the end she told me that I had won them fair and square . I did offer her more money but she declined to accept it . In life I have got to be able to live with myself from a moral perspective . Money isn't everything at the end of the day  |
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tonedeaf
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Post by tonedeaf on Apr 26, 2018 20:01:27 GMT
Maybe top up the dough when you collect. Better goes out for the bin men I didn't get them, someone else bought them for £30 |
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Post by brian2957 on Apr 26, 2018 20:06:52 GMT
Shame you didn't get there first . She would have been a few quid richer if you had  |
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Post by MikeMusic on Apr 26, 2018 20:07:25 GMT
Maybe top up the dough when you collect. Better goes out for the bin men I didn't get them, someone else bought them for £30 If I had got them that is what I would do. |
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Post by ant on Apr 27, 2018 0:08:26 GMT
I was looking for a tonearm at the back end of last year and came across a seller who had something i was interested in.
The lady was selling off her late husbands collection of gear and several things were listed incorrectly.
There were several sme 3012 arms listed just as pickup arm, and a rotel michi phono stage listed as a graphic equaliser
The rotel had a few hours over a day left and was on about 30 quid, the sme arms were on sod all.
I contacted the lady to tell her what she actually had, and to advise her to relist due to being in the wrong categories.
Upshot was, after I helped her to list them properly she got what they were actually worth.
I could have got the lot for sod all but that to me would have been completely immoral
What's wrong with just being a good person and helping out someone who needs your expertise rather than screwing somebody out of something
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Post by zippy on Apr 27, 2018 16:14:47 GMT
reminds me of the apocryphal story about being asked to 'get rid of a couple of old heaters that have never worked'.
They were Quad ESL's, and worked perfectly as such (though not as heaters)
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Post by Deleted on Apr 27, 2018 16:19:16 GMT
It is nice to be Honest. Honest is something i have been all my life but on many, too many occasions my honesty has been my downfall.
My grandad dad always used to say to me the dishonest business men are the successful ones.
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Post by MartinT on Apr 27, 2018 16:33:02 GMT
Maybe, but a dishonest man will never have truly honest friendships. Their whole life is a sham of people knowing what they're like really.
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tonedeaf
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Post by tonedeaf on Apr 28, 2018 13:39:43 GMT
I know an ex school friend, has their own business, was in court a few years back and threatened with 4 yrs prison, if they didn't pay back almost £800K, fraud, embezzlement? not sure, but they didn't go to prison so had the money available.... still drives a Bentley and holidays in the best places every few months.......
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Post by Slinger on Apr 28, 2018 14:30:12 GMT
They say that money can't buy you happiness. Whilst that may be true it can, however, allow you to be miserable in comfort.  |
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Post by Deleted on Apr 28, 2018 18:19:54 GMT
Another one of my Grandads famous sayings: 'You gotta have money to make money'
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