i recently received an email through my local macintosh user group
mailking list from an acquaintance who is selling a macintosh desktop
machine on Ebay.  He offered to take 5% less from anyone in our MUG.

IMHO this was a nice and substantial gesture on his part. This is his
personal machine and not a business in used equipment. I am increasingly
seeing newsgroup and mailing list postings which do nothing more than
reference an auction on ebay.  The old days of offering up a bargain for
fellow listmembers may be coming to an end.  It was the fraternal spin my
buddy put on this sale which got me to thinking.

So I thought I would offer up this practice as a suggestion to anyone on
our list who wants to (1) post to the Vanagon list that their personal
Vanagon or accessory is for sale on Ebay or another for-profit auction
site , (2) wants to get near market value for their personal Vanagon  (3)
still wants to give a break to fellow Vanagonaut and (4) want to find an
good and loving home for their personal Vanagon. :)

Just something to think about.  The 5% Ebay solution. BTW please note the
"personal" thread above, this is a not to incite people to post for
profit or their commercial enterprises.

-peace
Ed Stevens
Valley Forge PA