What has happened to McFeeleys

[krw]

Or the second seller got $100 too little. Really, it's a bad way to look at life. Yeah, I too get pangs when something goes on sale the day after I buy, but that's life. It was worth what I paid when I paid.

Well, that's the point of an auction. ;-) Still, to the sap, the widget was simply worth more than it was to anyone else. Yes, that's one reason I really don't like auctions.

I'm not good at estimating the worth of used stuff. I'd rather buy new, even if it does cost a little more. There's also the issue of not knowing if the widget is functional.

[Ed Pawlowski]

I'll take your offer for the goats. Daughter is packing now. if the goats will be here in time for dinner I'll toss in a wheelbarrow full of her toiletries in the bathroom.

[Mike M]

The thing I found savior in was the old adage that the price was subject to change according to the customers attitude. Usually the difficult ones wanted change orders. I ofen felt like a rented mule even working for myself as it's always your ass on the line.

Mike M

[Martin Eastburn]

Beseech entreat adjure conjure press. Ask for or express earnestly.

Those from Visual Thesaurus seems good to me.

Mart> DerbyDad03 wrote in

[Jack]

I wasn't really bidding, just scratching my nose...

[Jack]

She'd have to be a really good cook, not mind cleaning and laundry, shopping, mowing the lawn and sewing.

Otherwise 3 goats is an over bid.

[Puckdropper]

Jack wrote in news:muboj0$h5s$ [e-mail]:

I queried 10 fathers about their daughters, and none of them had anything bad to say about them. You'll be alright. :-)

Puckdropper

[DerbyDad03]

Isn't there typically an exchange of the item that was tendered when the bid is accepted/won?

I give you my goats, you give me your daughters.

How do you give someone "years of service" if that is the "tender" offered?

"I have 20 years of service, Jack only has 15, so I win the bid for that primo job. I'll deliver my 20 years of service by noon tomorrow."

It still sounds like a "ordered choice" based on some criteria, not a "bid".

[Leon]

ROTFL

[Ed Pawlowski]

You are using a very narrow definition, but a bid does not have to involve money. See #3 below.

noun : an offer to pay a particular amount of money for something

: an offer to do a job for a particular price

: an attempt to win, get, or do something

With that, I bid you adieu.

[John McCoy]

Ed Pawlowski wrote in news: [e-mail]:

A word is defined by the way it is used. The OED folks wrote a big huge book based on that premise.

In this case the normal usage for the job selection process in a union enviroment is "bid". Regardless of what you may think the definition of "bid" is, by virtue of a century or more of common usage "bid" now includes "enter into competition for a position, role, or job" amoung it's meanings.

John

[Jack]

Sure, I've heard that nonsense before. I'd bet that at least one in 200 are bad, or, is it the other way around?

Mine of course was the best. I know because she was really, really expensive. I happily gave her away though, no goats but a deal is a deal. She says in 9 days she's promoting me to a GF, we'll see how that goes.

[Leon]

Girl Friend??? LOL

Congratulations! I'm hoping our son eventually settles down, gets married, and begins working on grand kids.