[Coco] And update on my Roger Taylor Drive Pak saga...

[Juan Castro]

Boisy, I think I love you. In a fraternal fashion, of course.
Em 09/06/2012 09:12, "Boisy G. Pitre" <boisy at tee-boy.com> escreveu:

> > Hi,
> >
> >
> > What has this person lost? $50, $100, $250?
> >
> > Roger has invested, well the last time I saw a price for the software he
> purchased so as to produce better software for us was in the range of
> $2,000. That was ten or twenty years ago. Today it may be $10,000.
>
> What an interesting business model... this is too easy, and I'm kicking
> myself for not seeing it until now.  And you sound like the perfect "first
> customer."
>
> As it turns out, I have a brand spanking new, tested and working SuperIDE
> for sale... $90 + $10 S/H.  This thing is nice and shiny!  It's loaded with
> HDB-DOS and NitrOS-9, and ready to run on your CoCo.  It's
> S-U-H-W-H-E-E-E-T !!!
>
> I'll sell it to you right now!  So go right ahead and send me $100 via
> PayPal.  Thank you ever so much!  I'll get it out to you early next week,
> ok?
>
> But wait... I have another order that just came in, so I'll have to send
> it to THAT person.
>
> A couple of weeks later, when your hot and super cool SuperIDE hasn't
> showed up in your mailbox, I expect you'll start emailing me, asking where
> your product is.  But I won't bother answering.  I'll just ignore your
> email, ad infinitum.
>
> Wow, this is great.  If I could find a few more folks like you, I could
> make some real money!
>
> > Hounding someone like this person has done and is doing is illegal in
> real life. Sometime our laws will be enforced for online activity. It
> cannot come too soon.
>
> I agree.  So after months and months of not receiving anything, be sure to
> leave me alone and drop the matter, ok?  After all, it's just $100.
>
> > For again, how much money compared to what Roger has invested for us?
>
> Couldn't have said it better myself.  I'm banking on my reputation with
> the CoCo community to get me through this unscathed.
>
> > Stephen H. Fischer
>
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