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Quoted from lukerp:

turbo20lbs, I'm overly sorry I screwed up the deal for you. I'm sure you could have made it from Illinois, all the way through Wisconsin, up to Minnesota to get the machine before someone else did. Obviously, the right thing to do would have been to sit back and wait for someone to post it and say, "I called, but someone was already in line," and then we all could have had a pity party for that person about the one that got away. What would YOUR personal suggestion be for how someone who lives 800 miles from the location of the machine to notify people in the general area of the machine that it was available for a good price? Christ I get sick of obnoxious jackholes on the Internet.

OP

Quoted from lukerp:

dung said:
Like I said, I have no horse in this race, but I can very well see why Turbo acted how he did.

Hey Dung,

I somewhat agree with everything you have to say, except for that last line. People can voice disagreement with what I do in a respectful way, and he chose not to. You did, and I appreciate that.

I won't argue that CL postings can turn into auctions. Maybe that will be the result of my post; I highly doubt I'll ever find out. To offer the flipside, I came into this and said, "Hey, here's a machine; maybe someone wants it; I sure won't have any hope of getting it", and someone called me an idiot for my trouble. What I find funny, though, is that no one ever comes on here and says a person who misses out on a CL deal in his own back yard is in idiot. Instead, we get pages upon pages of "oh, you'll get the next one," and "yeah, if you don't get to it in ten minutes, someone else will", and "yeah, I JUST missed one by a few minutes".

If someone put a post up here and said, "Yeah, I'm third in line on this TOTAN outside of Minneapolis; guy's had two other calls in the past hour", and I posted saying, "Oh, yeah, saw it three hours ago; didn't think anyone would want to know", I'm pretty sure someone would say, "Well, Luke, why didn't you say anything? The person who started this thread could have had this cheap machine!" And for that person third in line, it would also be extremely frustrating to know he could have had a machine had I just said something. Maybe it's just me, but it seems I can't win either way, and if I'm going to lose, I'd rather lose so that someone on this site has a chance of getting the machine. Just my two cents.

Luke