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On Thu, 24 Jun 2004 08:37:25 -0600, Legrande Harris wrote:
In article , Greg Copeland wrote: According to the people, that *I* read and saw on TV, any hammer would of met the specs. Likewise, the tub liner there was nothing special. And you're right, therein lies the rub of why Congress was so ****ed off. As I recall, it was a scam because they under bid a contract (or something like that) and this was used to steal from peter to pay paul. AFAIR, specs had nothing to do with it. It was a simple scam put forth to get extra money. IIRC, toilet seats were also a line item which we were being scammed on. Yes, that's right, normal, regular toilet seats. Plastic seats at that. Yet, according to Tom, we got the best value for our dollar from that scam. Never mind that after the scandel broke, prices went back to what they were before the scam started, which were all inline with what you would find at any hardware store. Yet, Tom got his best value. Seriously, you don't have to look that hard to see that Tom gets screwed in just about every deal he makes. The problem with this discussion is that it is on specific items. The entire bid has to be considered to get the $900 hammer in perspective. Often there will be thousands of items in the bid, many of which will be in the hundreds of thousands if not millions per item. Weeks will be spent getting the price down on the more expensive items and then the cheaper items will be used to tweak the total bid. The price of small items pale into insignificance when the total bids are compared. LG The real problem with this is that it's really a tangent to the topic at hand. The details are really not what's important. The reason I felt it was germane to the topic is that it highlighted that you don't always get what you paid for and quality and price often have little to do with each other. Worse, his credo completely ignores the human condition, as I originally pointed out. Which, both contradict Mr. Sixkiller's position. In otherwords, you don't have to look far to find that his credo of, "you get what you pay for" (or whatever it was), does not even make for a good rule of thumb, let alone always true. But, he'd rather start ad homin (lol...punk....lol) attacks and push out his chest than support his view point. Clearly, in his mind, no one has the right to question him. After all, he knows more than anyone here, and his ego isn't about to let him forget that. Of course, there is that little pesky thing known as reality that I guess the rest of us live in, but that sure is not going to get past his ego. Summary of What We Learned: I'm a punk and he always gets the best by paying top dollar. Nuff said. I think we all understand were each stands. |
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I think I understand where both of you are coming from, and
NEITHER ONE OF YOU KNOW HOW TO GODDAMN SNIP. Jim Jim Weir (A&P/IA, CFI, & other good alphabet soup) VP Eng RST Pres. Cyberchapter EAA Tech. Counselor http://www.rst-engr.com |
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"Jim Weir" wrote in message ... snip NEITHER ONE OF YOU KNOW HOW TO GODDAMN SNIP. Says who? |
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