Jim Warner wrote:

To the pool of skilled operators and techniciansexcerpt Part 97)

Nearly every posting I place on this newsgroup, I receive an average of 40
requests for pictures from tirekickers and people who can only afford to
post my pictures on thier wannabe collector web pages. (This has nothing
to do with those of you who used my pics to relist what I sold you on Ebay)
99% of you don't render the common courtesy of responding to say "thanks,
I'll pass" or even "pack it in your ass", while somebody that wants it waits
in line.
(They do not wait anymore boys).
As a public service to help prevent the above described folks from wasting
thier
precious time, please don't waste mine by asking for pictures.
There's plenty of pictures on the net of every conceivable ham rig to
gawk at and drool over.
If you don't believe my descriptions, are unable to understand what you
read,
or unable to articulate a query, don't blame public education, and by all
means,
PLEASE ignore my listings.
Thank-you, thank-you very much
Jim WA9Z

If you're trying to sell a 75A4, I want to see pictures of _that_ 75A4
and not pictures of a pristine 75A4 from Osterman or some museum. I'm
not thinking about buying the one in Osterman or the one in the
museum.

If you want to sell something, you've got to be willing to convince
the prospective buyer that it's worth buying. That is, that the
one _you_ are selling is worth buying: in good condition, not full
of mouse droppings or leaves or less desirable stuff, not rusty,
not missing knobs and meters, not bent and dinged and scarred and
scratched, not modified by someone who shouldn't have been allowed to
drive a wheelbarrow.

So if you're not willing to send pictures to demonstrate that, then
I don't have the time to waste in trying to deal with you.

You do have one unique distinction, though it's not one to be envied:
You're the very first person I've *plonk*ed in this newsgroup.

--
Mike Andrews

Tired old sysadmin