sweetsawdust wrote:
> Value is in the perception of the buyer. I was at a craft recently and
> heard a vendor tell a customer that was complaining about the price of one
> of his upper end items ( read high priced), He kindly told her that he
> understood her shock at the price of the item, but he had many customers
> that were willing and able to pay the asking price. She bought it with
> out another word. Sounded like a good sales pitch to me.
Sounds like a poor haggler to me. :-)
It's no accident that many rich people are stupid. If you're stupid and
NOT rich, you tend to die early.
On Sat, 08 Jul 2006 10:11:49 -0700, sustainablebirdhouses wrote:
> Consider birdhouses made from reused materials.
>
> http://sustainablebirdhouses.com
For all the talk about rich folks and their ethics, how many here
considered whether it might not be a good idea to hang on to the shorter
pieces of scrap in the future?
If the guy can get that much for his bird feeders and houses, they are
worth it because, bottom line, a thing is worth exactly what you can
convince a willing buyer to pay for it.
The Bible talks of a time when a quart of wheat will cost a days wages.
Worth it? You bet ... if the alternative is starvation.
Bill
"Mark & Juanita" <[email protected]> wrote in message
news:[email protected]...
Neat trick, use somebody's
> trash wood, paint it up in a "green" label by calling it "sustainable" or
> "recycled" and charge huge amounts for it.
>
Or, say that it's good for "the children."
Ideology. Makes things seem, then become what they aren't, as the Herr
Doktor said.
Made from pallets is reused, isn't it?
Value is in the perception of the buyer. I was at a craft recently and
heard a vendor tell a customer that was complaining about the price of one
of his upper end items ( read high priced), He kindly told her that he
understood her shock at the price of the item, but he had many customers
that were willing and able to pay the asking price. She bought it with
out another word. Sounded like a good sales pitch to me.
<[email protected]> wrote in message
news:[email protected]...
> Consider birdhouses made from reused materials.
>
> http://sustainablebirdhouses.com
>
[email protected] wrote:
>Consider birdhouses made from reused materials.
>
>http://sustainablebirdhouses.com
Sure looks like spam...
Expensive too...
But click on the "Home" link, and you have a nice list of bird house
specifications and free plans to build your own bird houses.
And around here most of the birds are homeless anyway, so they don't
turn up their noses at the houses I make from scrap (aka "reused
materials").
In article <[email protected]>, "sweetsawdust" <[email protected]> wrote:
>Value is in the perception of the buyer. I was at a craft recently and
>heard a vendor tell a customer that was complaining about the price of one
>of his upper end items ( read high priced), He kindly told her that he
>understood her shock at the price of the item, but he had many customers
>that were willing and able to pay the asking price. She bought it with
>out another word. Sounded like a good sales pitch to me.
Ayup. I'll have to remember *that* one. Could've used it a few weeks ago...
--
Regards,
Doug Miller (alphageek at milmac dot com)
It's time to throw all their damned tea in the harbor again.
"Rick Samuel" <[email protected]> wrote in message
>
> Had to become rich when one has ethics. I know 3 people, and only 3, who
> "made it" themselves. They screwed more people out of more things then
> you can shake a stick at. Not saying you CAN'T do it, just a great deal
> harder.
Disagree. I know three that have "made it" and they got there because of
generosity and helping others. I'm proud to be associated with them and
their ethics.
"Rick Samuel" <[email protected]> wrote in message
news:[email protected]...
> It's no accident that many rich people are stupid. If you're stupid and
> > NOT rich, you tend to die early.
>
> So if you're so much smarter than all the rich people howcum you're not
one
> of them?
>
> Had to become rich when one has ethics. I know 3 people, and only 3, who
> "made it" themselves. They screwed more people out of more things then
you
> can shake a stick at. Not saying you CAN'T do it, just a great deal
harder.
>
>
Now that is one of the dumbest statements I've ever read. Sounds more like
a poor excuse for jealousy of the richer-than-you crowd.
--
-Mike-
[email protected]
Dhakala wrote:
>
> sweetsawdust wrote:
>> Value is in the perception of the buyer. I was at a craft recently and
>> heard a vendor tell a customer that was complaining about the price of
>> one of his upper end items ( read high priced), He kindly told her that
>> he understood her shock at the price of the item, but he had many
>> customers
>> that were willing and able to pay the asking price. She bought it with
>> out another word. Sounded like a good sales pitch to me.
>
> Sounds like a poor haggler to me. :-)
>
> It's no accident that many rich people are stupid. If you're stupid and
> NOT rich, you tend to die early.
So if you're so much smarter than all the rich people howcum you're not one
of them?
--
--John
to email, dial "usenet" and validate
(was jclarke at eye bee em dot net)
It's no accident that many rich people are stupid. If you're stupid and
> NOT rich, you tend to die early.
So if you're so much smarter than all the rich people howcum you're not one
of them?
Had to become rich when one has ethics. I know 3 people, and only 3, who
"made it" themselves. They screwed more people out of more things then you
can shake a stick at. Not saying you CAN'T do it, just a great deal harder.
Rick Samuel wrote:
> It's no accident that many rich people are stupid. If you're stupid and
>> NOT rich, you tend to die early.
>
> So if you're so much smarter than all the rich people howcum you're not
> one of them?
>
> Had to become rich when one has ethics. I know 3 people, and only 3, who
> "made it" themselves. They screwed more people out of more things then
> you
> can shake a stick at. Not saying you CAN'T do it, just a great deal
> harder.
If you define "making a profit" as "screwing people".
--
--John
to email, dial "usenet" and validate
(was jclarke at eye bee em dot net)
In article <[email protected]>, "Rick Samuel" <[email protected]> wrote:
>Had to become rich when one has ethics. I know 3 people, and only 3, who
>"made it" themselves. They screwed more people out of more things then you
>can shake a stick at. Not saying you CAN'T do it, just a great deal harder.
Nonsense. SWMBO's parents are the most srcupulous, ethical people I know, and
they are, at a minimum, quite well off. They got that way through a
combination of living beneath their means, and prudently investing their
surplus funds. Neither one of them has any college education, nor did they
inherit very much of anything from their parents. Just hard work, good sense,
and careful investing of income over a period of more than forty years.
--
Regards,
Doug Miller (alphageek at milmac dot com)
It's time to throw all their damned tea in the harbor again.
For the number of dollars they are charging the birdhouses should be at
least made of teak and some gilded parts too.
<[email protected]> wrote in message
news:[email protected]...
> Consider birdhouses made from reused materials.
>
> http://sustainablebirdhouses.com
>
On 8 Jul 2006 10:11:49 -0700, [email protected] wrote:
>Consider birdhouses made from reused materials.
>
>http://im_a_spamming_scum_sustainable_pointyheaded_fmhippietype.com
Kind of like spam eh?
$270 for a bird feeder? Made out of junk? Neat trick, use somebody's
trash wood, paint it up in a "green" label by calling it "sustainable" or
"recycled" and charge huge amounts for it.
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If you're gonna be dumb, you better be tough
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Dhakala wrote:
> sweetsawdust wrote:
>
>>Value is in the perception of the buyer. I was at a craft recently and
>>heard a vendor tell a customer that was complaining about the price of one
>>of his upper end items ( read high priced), He kindly told her that he
>>understood her shock at the price of the item, but he had many customers
>>that were willing and able to pay the asking price. She bought it with
>>out another word. Sounded like a good sales pitch to me.
>
>
> Sounds like a poor haggler to me. :-)
>
> It's no accident that many rich people are stupid. If you're stupid and
> NOT rich, you tend to die early.
>
Or they end up not being rich for long.
Glen