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Wayne Brady tickets 1/2 price (XVP!)...

#1

If you want to give them away to someone for free, great. Offering them for
sale at any price on this board is spam, pure and simple.

Brian

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In a message dated 7/25/2004 10:14:01 PM Pacific Standard Time,
misscraps@aol.com writes:

I have 2 orchestra tickets for Wayne Brady, Sat. Aug. 14, 10:30 pm. Ticket
price is about $73 each ticket. I would like to sell both for $70. If
anyone
is interested, please let me know via private email.

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#2

bjaygold@aol.com wrote:

If you want to give them away to someone for free, great. Offering them for
sale at any price on this board is spam, pure and simple.

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In a message dated 7/25/2004 10:14:01 PM Pacific Standard Time,
misscraps@aol.com writes:

I have 2 orchestra tickets for Wayne Brady, Sat. Aug. 14, 10:30 pm. Ticket
price is about $73 each ticket. I would like to sell both for $70. If
anyone is interested, please let me know via private email.

I assume that Wayne Brady is appearing in a casino somewhere, or at least in a gambling town, and that misscraps is not posting similar notices in every newsgroup she can find, like the idiots who think I want to see Homer Simpson have sex with Lisa. Since anything pertaining to gambling trips, including eating, car rental, recommended show, etc., are all considered on-topic on vpFree, I believe the vast majority of members of vpFree would _NOT_ consider misscraps post as spam, nor does it meet the conventional definition of spam. I don't have a problem with it, and on this group I don't think we're going to see a whole lot of members trying to sell something; but should that happen, normal netiquette is to start the subject line with "FS:" -- indicating 'For Sale' -- so that folks can set their filters to eliminate all such ads if that's what they want to do.

As for gift versus sale, misscraps is offering them at about half their value, as it is; why should she give them away? It's nice when folks do such things, but if the two tickets are really worth close to $150.00, I can't blame her for trying to sell them.

Bill Velek

#3

If you want to give them away to someone for free, great. Offering

them for

sale at any price on this board is spam, pure and simple.

Brian

Yo Brian,

1. Unless you have been appointed moderator or Grand High Poobah or
something else related to authority over this board, you have no
business telling someone else what they can and cannot post.

2. There is a difference between offering a product for sale on a
continuing basis (buy my new VP book for $12.95, special price for
VPFree members!!), and what was offered here. If you were an
experienced member of this board, you would know that members
frequently offer coupons or vouchers or other goodies that are
transferable, either in exchange for something, as an outright
giveaway, or for a nominal sum. Now, I can't blame misscraps for
wanting to get SOME money back for her tickets, and $70 for $146 worth
of tickets sounds like a pretty good deal to me. In fact, I would jump
on it were I not going to be out of town that day.

3. Of course, if all this mercenary nonsense offends you, then the
instructions for unsubscribing can be had by emailing the VPFree
administrator (remember--the guy who, unlike you, actually IS in charge?).

4. And rest assured, Tom Sims, the moderator of whom I speak, above,
will duly remove any post that violates the rules of this board to a
sufficient extent, in HIS OPINION (i.e. NOT yours).

5. Oh yes---even if misscraps' post DID break the rules---SO BLOODY
WHAT? Lighten up, dude!!!

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--- In vpFREE@yahoogroups.com, bjaygold@a... wrote:

#4

> If you want to give them away to someone for free, great. Offering

them for

> sale at any price on this board is spam, pure and simple.
>
> Brian

Yo Brian,

1. Unless you have been appointed moderator or Grand High Poobah or
something else related to authority over this board, you have no
business telling someone else what they can and cannot post.

Seems like you are telling Brian what he can and cannot post.

Pot, meet Kettle.

4. And rest assured, Tom Sims, the moderator of whom I speak, above,
will duly remove any post that violates the rules of this board to a
sufficient extent, in HIS OPINION (i.e. NOT yours).

Nor yours.

5. Oh yes---even if misscraps' post DID break the rules---SO BLOODY
WHAT? Lighten up, dude!!!

Thank you for that fine example of "ligtening up" :wink:

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On Monday 26 July 2004 09:05 am, rockofjello333 wrote:

--- In vpFREE@yahoogroups.com, bjaygold@a... wrote: