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 May 15, 2003 - 10:47 PM | chris
We're Rolling Back Prices

Yeseen hit by a truck, took a half-hearted shower, and trudged to the shuttle stop, only to witness the shuttle drive by. So with 20 minutes to go before the meeting started and supposedly 15 minutes but who really knows when until the next shuttle, I started walking to campus.

Half an hour later, still half asleep, I arrive at school. After the meeting, I tried to pry my eyes open and start working, except my computer wouldn't let me log in. Neither did the computer at the next table. I sent a message to CTS, the folks that fix computers when they get screwed up, but they didn't come fix the machines for an hour and a half.

After what seemed like the longest day ever, I came home because I had arranged to show a potential buyer my old monitor. He checked it out and gave me $35 for it and left, then emailed me back saying that it "had hardware problems that I had to tell him about" and therefore he was returning it. All this for a secondhand monitor, in perfect condition, that I even still had the freaking manual for!

Apparently I didn't just sell him a monitor, I sold him a warranty and a service agreement. I wasn't aware I was running a damn Wal-Mart here. I'm surprised he didn't claim he saw the same monitor cheaper somewhere else and make me pay 110% of the difference. Maybe I should run a 24-hour tech support line out of my apartment for the hardware that I sell. I'm sure my roommates would have no problem with that...