[rescue] San Antonio, TX area rescue

[ed at the7thbeer.com]

You didn't win the "auction".  You convinced the seller to end the
auction.  Slight difference.

>    You win some, you lose some.  That's the nature of auctions.  Of 
> course I never intended to screw Eric, I know he's pissed at me, and I 
> feel bad about it...but not *too* bad, because he elected to go up 
> against me in the auction in the first place, which is something folks 
> around here generally don't do.  But that's neither here nor 

There's some unspoken rule that if a person on this list bids against you
that it's an automatic "behind the back" end run?  I'll remember that now
that I know.

> there...the simple fact remains that nobody here ever had any real shot 
> at those machines on personal finances with all the dealers running 
> around on eBay, unless they're a lot wealthier than they let on.

And so you're the ultimate judge of that eh?  Rather specious reasoning in
my opinion.

>    Doing an end-run around the auction was a sleazy thing for me to do, 
> to be sure.  But there is another issue that gave me quite a bit of 
> time pressure...when our very own Sridhar (and his S/390) evaporated 
> from my company recently, a big part of the company's product plans 
> (which required his machine or one like it) evaporated with him.  Since 
> these machines represented the possibility of a resurrection of that 
> plan, and we're now deep into planning our deployment strategy, I had 
> to give it a shot.

So I take it you offered the seller a *fair* price then.  After all, that
would be the only right thing to do in light of the circumstances,
especially since this is going to benefit the company.  Or am I mistaken?  

-ed

>    Not justification, but explanation.
> 
>          -Dave
> 
> On Thursday, November 28, 2002, at 09:31 PM, <ed at the7thbeer.com> wrote:
> > It's a rather Machiavellian approach, but so long as you fully expect 
> > it
> > to be done to you in turn, it's OK, right? :)
> >
> >>    Like I said, I'm sorry man, but I was in there first and you 
> >> decided
> >> to bid against me anyway.  It's not like you didn't see who the high
> >> bidder was when you placed your bid.
> >>
> >>        -Dave
> >>
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