Date   : Wed, 29 Jun 2005 17:56:12 +0000
From   : "Brian Jones" <ninsei0@...>
Subject: Re: trader warning

This strikes me as a rather bizarre contribution to our BBC Micro mailing 
list.
I cannot imagine a professional person, writing this guff and posting it on 
the Internet for anyone to read. Of course we could be entering the silly 
season!
Cheers
Brian

>From: "Raf" <rafg1@...>
>To: <bbc-micro@...>
>CC: "Greg Cook" <debounce@...>
>Subject: Re: [BBC-Micro] trader warning
>Date: Wed, 29 Jun 2005 06:35:09 +0930
>
>Suffice it to say, Greg, that He was quite adamant that He was the expert
>& that,  in His country, His banks made no distinction between a normal,
>personal, every-day cheque versus a proper bank cheque, drawn on a bank
>in his country, as is the usual case when I do business overseas elsewhere. 
>He also wanted
>the personal cheque to be in Euros (bizarre in retrosopect). It was as if 
>he had a nasty agenda
>as he never tried to emulate the old adage of, "the customer is always 
>right"; but
>by then it was too late anyhow. So an Aussie personal cheque for Euros was 
>not honoured
>despite his prognostications (remember the poem refers to me biiting my 
>nails in waiting)
>
>I still have plenty of credit now as I did then, in my personal cheque 
>accounts.
>
>I had better leave it there, Greg.
>
>Best wishes
>
>Dr Raf Giaccio, MD.
>
>
>>----- Original Message ----- From: "Greg Cook" <debounce@...>
>>To: <bbc-micro@...>
>>Sent: Wednesday, June 29, 2005 1:47 AM
>>Subject: Re: [BBC-Micro] trader warning
>>
>>
>>>On Sun, 26 Jun 2005 23:01:39 +0930, Raf <rafg1@...> wrote:
>>>
>>>>There is a young man in Europe
>>>>
>>>>Who really is a bit of a dope.
>>>
>>>It makes it sound like the trader was at fault. Don't cheques bounce
>>>when the *issuer* is low on funds?  Unless the anonymous dealer has
>>>cheated you in some other way, I don't see what s/he's done to get
>>>called a dope.
>>>
>>>The rest of the poem is good advice, don't send a cheque when you know
>>>it won't clear, a wise trader will hold the goods anyway until it does.
>>>
>>>Greg
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
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