Ken:  You are a good man and a good Vendor.  Don't let one idiot ruin
your day.

Thanks for all you do for the VW community.

On 5/18/09, Ken Wilford <kenwilfy@comcast.net> wrote:
> I have had my sister's 88 Westy listed on the Samba for over a year
> now.  It is a very nice 88 Westy with almost exactly 100k miles on it,
> tons of work done (all documented), and Go Westy metal bumpers on it.
> Before our economic slow down I would have been able to quickly sell it
> for around $17k maybe even a little more.  Since then, it is just
> sitting here and I am in no real rush to sell it.  My sister is not
> financially strapped, I am not either and the van is being used about
> once a week so it isn't just sitting here rusting.  This morning I get a
> taunting email from someone on The Samba scoffing at my price for the
> van and telling me that they contacted me back in December about it and
> now it is May and it still hasn't sold.  In the first place, why should
> they care?  In the second place December isn't the time of year that
> vans sell anyway, now is.  In the third place I wouldn't sell the van to
> this idiot now for $1 million bucks.  Why do people have to feel that
> they need to comment when they think your van price is too high?  I have
> had this happen more than once.  Another time a guy called me on the
> phone, long distance, merely to tell me that I was asking way to much
> (for a van that I sold at that price a few weeks later I might ad).  Why
> do people act this way?  Once I asked the person, OK how much would you
> give me for it?  They had no money and no intention of buying a van,
> they just wanted to scoff and harass me about my price.  I have never
> been able to figure out this kind of rude behavior.  For the most part
> the VW community and Vanagon community has nice folks in it.  Every once
> and a while you run into a jerky boy.  I guess this guy was just this
> summer's jerky boy.  Now I can relax and not worry about meeting another
> one until next spring :-)
>
> Ken Wilford
> John 3:16
> www.vanagain.com
>

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Pete
'79 Westy "Aardvark"
'87 Westy "Joe's Van"
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