I normally try to stay out of drama since honestly he doesn't and hasn't ever needed me to have his virtual back, but sometimes I just can't help myself.

$1600 isn't a lowball offer. $1600 plus the three and a half hour one way drive uncompensated to deliver a machine makes it a lowball offer.

Yeah, sure, gas is sitting at $1.87 a gallon right now and I have 400 Kroger gas points to use this month, but still. If you want to look at it that way, it's seven to eight hours drive time out of our way plus the load/unloading time. Next week unlimited overtime at Frax's job comes back, which means that ten hours is about $300 of pay. So, lemme do the math for you. Original price $2000. The offer was $1600 and we deliver it... from Dallas... to Austin. Ignoring the miles and wear and tear on my car from driving the approximate 420 miles but counting the $40 in gas money we'd be spending, we'd end up walking away from the deal making $1260. Does that sound like a lowball offer to you?

Now that's settled, I don't know or care about any drama. We've done trades with Brandon before, I think he's a pretty nice guy from everything I've seen and read. I don't know what happened earlier, what wires got crossed, whatever. I do know that his post "I urge you to re-think this." was pretty inflammatory on it's own (especially when you look at the math work above). There wasn't any happy smiley faces, no emoticon sarcasm, just simple text. I read that, laughed, and told Josh that he could tell him to jump. If he wasn't being particularly serious with his post, then no harm done and I'll apologize for the mean thoughts I had earlier about his offer. Anyways, it's the internets. *shrug*

Finally, this is a sale thread. It's not a 'who likes who' thread or a 'you're a mean poster' thread. Believe me, I've been reading people's butthurt internet posts about how much someone doesn't like Frax's attitude or opinions for fifteen years now. We met on a gaming message board for crying out loud. What you see is what you get with him. Always has been, always will be. I don't know very many people who would say they don't like him in our local community - and those people that would say that are very welcome to their opinion, as I don't think much of them, either.

Who are you again, 88vette? I'm not sure if we've met.