[PRCo] Re: [Fwd: Re: Interesting item on eBay Canada web site item#1088214356:The Red Arrow by Ronald DeGraw]

[John F Bromley]

You're "greasing" me up for something perhaps?

----- Original Message -----
From: "Jim Holland" <pghpcc at pacbell.net>
To: "-->- PRCo -- WP -- JTC -<--" <pittsburgh-railways at dementia.org>
Sent: Friday, March 29, 2002 4:31 PM
Subject: [PRCo] [Fwd: Re: Interesting item on eBay Canada web site
item#1088214356:The Red Arrow by Ronald DeGraw]


>
> Greasings!!!!!!!
>
> As far as good prices, I definitely agree with Don   ---   your pricing is
> extremely modest, John, but very much appreciated!
>
> -------- Original Message --------
> Subject: [PRCo] Re: Interesting item on eBay Canada web site
> item#1088214356:The Red Arrow by Ronald DeGraw
> Date: Fri, 29 Mar 2002 14:22:23 -0500
> From: John F Bromley <johnfbromley at rogers.com>
> Reply-To: pittsburgh-railways at dementia.org
> To: pittsburgh-railways at dementia.org
> References: <3CA44BD5.3586.DDFDCD at localhost>
>
> Easy Mark?  Why you ---.......  That's what I get for being a nice guy!
OK
> seriously I don't believe in screwing people and that's why hoar's like
> this (deliberate misspelling, don't want to clutter Derrick's site) piss
me
> off.   And yes, to combine this answer with John Swindler's comment ERA
> still has a few TTC books for sale, cheap.
>
> I think Red Arrow can still be had for a bit less than this but maybe
> not.   The price is in Canadian loonies and it probably isn't much more
> than $115 US.  I used this as a sample for the list because at least it
was
> a Pennsylvania book and that way I could sort of rant on about the Toronto
> prices indirectly (sorry, Derrick).
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Donald Galt" <galtfd at att.net>
> To: <pittsburgh-railways at dementia.org>
> Sent: Friday, March 29, 2002 2:11 PM
> Subject: [PRCo] Re: Interesting item on eBay Canada web site
> item#1088214356: The Red Arrow by Ronald DeGraw
>
> On 29 Mar 2002 at 9:15, johnfbromley at rogers.com wrote:
>
> Getta load of this guy's pricing.  Check his other sales for Toronto
> books.  I wrote to him and called him  ...(well, no one needs to know
> that)... for charging these prices.
>
>  Title of item: The Red Arrow by Ronald DeGraw
>  Price: Starts at C $185.00
>
> At the risk of branding John an easy mark (not, I think, a valid label!)
> I'll let drop the observation that a few months ago he threw in a copy of
> "TTC '28" for an amount so low that I'm embarrassed to quote it, as part
of
> an already modestly priced private sale of books to me.   At the time I
> hadn't even heard of the book        :o}          nor
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> James B. Holland
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