Re: Tom Sullivan's Hurricane Relief Sale - The Final Score

You are always welcome to contribute. You don't need to buy something to do so.

As I explained in my email to you, I have a family and don't spend all of my
time
lurking on newgroups or forums. In fact, I'm unable to read netnews from home
(I'm
in my office at work now, so that's why I'm finally following up on your post,
Tues.
morning).

I sold these to the first person who sent me a direct email to buy them. Yes, I
do
read email regularly. They sold quickly. The person is paying with a Money
Order,
so as I do not yet have the MO (they too are out of the US, so it will be an
Intl one),
I have not posted or marked the items as completely "sold" yet, in the event
something
goes wrong.

Sorry chief, you're emails to me (you should have sent me one in the first place
telling
ME you wanted to buy them rather than the rest of the netnews world) and this
posting of yours sound like sour grapes. I'm sure there are plenty more MOTU
units
around for you to buy at a great price. Ebay has them regularly. I don't see
where I've
done anything wrong or dishonest here. Way to go to turn something that was
done as
a positive into a negative.

This sale was for hurricane victims. 100% of the money from this is going to
that cause.
I'm making nothing on this and certainly never set out to screw anyone in this
process.
You sould be happy they sold and that the sale will (hopefully) help some folks.

My apologies to anyone else in a similar situation to Predrags. I got very few
direct
responses to my posts, a couple offering me less for the units, and one that
agreed to buy
for the listed price. My only goal was in selling these units and donating the
money. And
that's what I did (am in the process of doing).

--Tom

Predrag Trpkov wrote:

> In absence of any response from Tom, I decided to email him directly, two
> days after he posted his offer. I didn't do it before because I felt it was
> only appropriate to reply publicly to what looked like a pure and noble
> public initiative, crossposted to several newsgroups, just like a rather
> constructive discussion that followed my reply. Yes, i was the first to
> accept Tom's offer.
>
> It turns out, Tom has already sold the items to somebody else.
>
> I have no reason to doubt that the money will end up helping the victims of
> the hurricane. Still, there are questions I must ask.
>
> Was it unreallistic to expect that the person who made such a public offer
> would also check within a day or two whether his initiative has generated
> any response on any of the newsgroups? My reply/offer was inadvertently
> crossposted too.
>
> Was it unreallistic to expect him to at least inform the community of the
> outcome of his efforts and that the offer was no longer valid?
>
> Is it reallistic to assume that he really didn't care to do any of it?
>
> This was not a private drop-me-a-line sale. The items offered are ready
> available on Ebay at any time so it must have been addressed to and based on
> good will and intentions. The price was a non-issue, as it should be in a
> case like this.
>
> In times like this we should stick together. Or at least stop building the
> invisible walls, for a moment.
>
> Instead, I'm going to bed wondering about why exactly I wasn't welcome to
> contribute and, since there's hidden criteria for the contributors, are
> there criteria for the recipients of the help too?
>
> --
> Predrag
>
> To reply, remove NESPAMU from my email address:
> predrag.trpkovNESPAMU@xxxxxxxxxxx

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