|
Make every effort to complete transactions within 30 days. That's the magic time at which many remedies go away or become more difficult. I've let myself be burned a couple times by being too casual or too nice with flakes. Pre-sales email is a good indicator - whether buying or selling - but nothing is foolproof.
I'm about to try a local ebay sales shop. Sure, some transactions go easily enough, but coughing up 25% to completely avoid the process can seem like a bargain.
__________________
There are a vast number of people who are uninformed and heavily propagandized, but fundamentally decent. The propaganda that inundates them is effective when unchallenged, but much of it goes only skin deep. If they can be brought to raise questions and apply their decent instincts and basic intelligence, many people quickly escape the confines of the doctrinal system and are willing to do something to help others who are really suffering and oppressed." -Manufacturing Consent: Noam Chomsky and the Media, p. 195
|