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Re: Interesting item on eBay web site item#191028408: Jack forMGMIDGET/A

To: "Spridgets" <spridgets@autox.team.net>
Subject: Re: Interesting item on eBay web site item#191028408: Jack forMGMIDGET/AUSTIN HEALEY SPRITE
From: "Robert Duquette" <RobertDuquette@Sympatico.ca>
Date: Wed, 3 Nov 1999 21:59:24 -0500
Reply-to: "Robert Duquette" <RobertDuquette@Sympatico.ca>
Sender: owner-spridgets@autox.team.net
Hey!  We can still have the cartel.  A 0 is nothing among friends!

Robert D.

-----Original Message-----
From: Brad Fornal <toyman@htcomp.net>


>Yeah, I was wondering how the $150 price tag dropped to $15 overnight. Did
>someone on this list let them know that we were ridiculing them behind
their
>backs????   DAMN! there goes our "rare jack" cartel       Brad
>
>ldsp wrote:
>
>> A riddle for the list, concerning an item on ebay.....
>>
>> jack has lost a 0.....
>>
>> inquiring minds want to know......
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Robert Duquette <RobertDuquette@Sympatico.ca>
>> To: Spridgets <spridgets@autox.team.net>
>> Date: Wednesday, November 03, 1999 6:04 PM
>> Subject: Re: Interesting item on eBay web site item#191028408: Jack for
>> MGMIDGET/AUSTIN HEALEY SPRITE
>>
>> >Hmmph!  Probably made in the UK!
>> >
>> >Robert D.
>> >
>> >-----Original Message-----
>> >From: Larry Miller <millerls@ado13.com>
>> >To: Spridgets <spridgets@autox.team.net>
>> >Date: November 3, 1999 6:45 PM
>> >Subject: Re: Interesting item on eBay web site item#191028408: Jack for
>> >MGMIDGET/AUSTIN HEALEY SPRITE
>> >
>> >
>> >>There is now another jack on ebay. This one apparently is less "rare".
The
>> >>current bid is only $38.
>> >>
>> >>Larry Miller
>> >>http://www.ado13.com
>> >>God, grant me the Senility to forget the people I never liked anyway,
>> >>The good fortune to run into the ones that I do,
>> >>And the eyesight to tell the difference.
>> >>
>> >>
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>> >>
>> >>
>> >>----- Original Message -----
>> >>From: Brad Fornal <toyman@htcomp.net>
>> >>To: Albert F Jones <fisher@hctc.net>
>> >>Cc: Bryan Vandiver <Bryan.Vandiver@Eng.Sun.COM>; <samesq@pacbell.net>;
>> >><type79@ix.netcom.com>; <spridgets@autox.team.net>
>> >>Sent: Wednesday, November 03, 1999 3:18 PM
>> >>Subject: Re: Interesting item on eBay web site item#191028408: Jack for
MG
>> >>MIDGET/AUSTIN HEALEY SPRITE
>> >>
>> >>
>> >>> If you want to be a member of the cartel are automatic Uzis gonna be
>> >>required. Me
>> >>> Tight, I can't get one until I turn a few jacks on
>> >>ebay.................Brad
>> >>>
>> >>> Albert F Jones wrote:
>> >>>
>> >>> > Hello Bryan,
>> >>> >
>> >>> >         Can we join that cartel too?  We have more than a 'few' of
>> them
>> >>too.
>> >>> >
>> >>> > Fisher (Rhodes) Jones - Just call me Cecil
>> >>> >
>> >>> > At 08:58 AM 11/3/99 -0800, Bryan Vandiver wrote:
>> >>> > >Brad,
>> >>> > >
>> >>> > >I think you have the right idea. Maybe we should form a 'rare jack
>> >>cartel'
>> >>> > just
>> >>> > >like the diamond industry. That way we can regulate the number of
>> >jacks
>> >>on
>> >>> > the
>> >>> > >market, keeping the price as high as possible.  In addition we
need
>> >>should
>> >>> > agree
>> >>> > >that if any one of us sells an LBC, we will be sure to remove the
>> jack
>> >>> > from the
>> >>> > >car before turning it over to the new owner (not including list
>> >members
>> >>of
>> >>> > >course). This will be 'our littel secret' ;-)
>> >>> > >
>> >>> > > - Bryan Vandiver (59-bugeye)
>> >>> > > Sna Jose, CA
>> >>> > >
>> >>> > >>MIME-Version: 1.0
>> >>> > >>To: Swift Justice <samesq@pacbell.net>
>> >>> > >>CC: type79@ix.netcom.com, spridgets@autox.team.net
>> >>> > >>Subject: Re: Interesting item on eBay web site item#191028408:
Jack
>> >>for MG
>> >>> > >MIDGET/AUSTIN HEALEY SPRITE
>> >>> > >>
>> >>> > >>O.K. let me get this straight. Alot of us have this type of jack
>> >>around the
>> >>> > >house? We need a plan...........o.k. o.k. we'll draw straws
>> >>> > >>on who sells their "RARE" jack on ebay next, and don't cut in
line
>> or
>> >>> > you'll
>> >>> > >flood the very delicate" rare jack market" <G>    Brad
>> >>> > >>
>> >>> > >>Swift Justice wrote:
>> >>> > >>
>> >>> > >>> type79@ix.netcom.com wrote:
>> >>> > >>>
>> >>> > >>> > Hey Frank,
>> >>> > >>> > Do you have any jacks? If anyone like big time wrestling,
you'll
>> >>love
>> >>> > this
>> >>> > >auction.
>> >>> > >>>
>> >>> > >>> That looks just like the jack that came with my '79, after I
>> >cleaned
>> >>it
>> >>> > up
>> >>> > >and painted it too.  Hey, I better go check the garage...
>> >>> > >>>
>> >>> > >>> Steve.
>> >>> > >>> --
>> >>> > >>> -----------------
>> >>> > >>> Steve McGee
>> >>> > >>> Atty. at Large
>> >>> > >>> samesq@pacbell.net
>> >>> > >>> Homepage:
>> >>> > >>> http://home.pacebell.net/samesq
>> >>> > >>> -----------------
>> >>> > >>>
>> >>> > >>>  Life is unpredictable.  Eat dessert first.
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