[rescue] San Antonio, TX area rescue

[Dave McGuire]

   You win some, you lose some.  That's the nature of auctions.  Of 
course I never intended to screw Eric, I know he's pissed at me, and I 
feel bad about it...but not *too* bad, because he elected to go up 
against me in the auction in the first place, which is something folks 
around here generally don't do.  But that's neither here nor 
there...the simple fact remains that nobody here ever had any real shot 
at those machines on personal finances with all the dealers running 
around on eBay, unless they're a lot wealthier than they let on.

   Doing an end-run around the auction was a sleazy thing for me to do, 
to be sure.  But there is another issue that gave me quite a bit of 
time pressure...when our very own Sridhar (and his S/390) evaporated 
from my company recently, a big part of the company's product plans 
(which required his machine or one like it) evaporated with him.  Since 
these machines represented the possibility of a resurrection of that 
plan, and we're now deep into planning our deployment strategy, I had 
to give it a shot.

   Not justification, but explanation.

         -Dave

On Thursday, November 28, 2002, at 09:31 PM, <ed at the7thbeer.com> wrote:
> It's a rather Machiavellian approach, but so long as you fully expect 
> it
> to be done to you in turn, it's OK, right? :)
>
>>    Like I said, I'm sorry man, but I was in there first and you 
>> decided
>> to bid against me anyway.  It's not like you didn't see who the high
>> bidder was when you placed your bid.
>>
>>        -Dave
>>
>> --
>> Dave McGuire                 "You don't have Vaseline in Canada?"
>> St. Petersburg, FL                     -Bill Bradford
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Dave McGuire                 "You don't have Vaseline in Canada?"
St. Petersburg, FL                     -Bill Bradford