Blackberry saved money or Buyer beware

Elaine, I think I know this guy. Did he have a bunch of eagle carvings too?

-- Jerry--A man can never have enough tools or clamps

I resisted blackberries for a very long time. But now that I have one it really helps out. It’s wonderful to validate things on the spot like that.

Jerry,

Yes he did and a few bear carvings with signs along with some canes that he said he carved and donated to disabled vets. I don’t think the same person was doing the carvings. I didn’t know how to make anyone be careful and not do the long drive up there. He’s all over the IWANNA in woodworking tools. Should I have called you before I went up the hill?

-- Elaine, Conover, NC

Elaine,
Great save…and good job !!! I to have a Blackberry that was a gift from my wife and daughter. Of course I said wow…and how much I liked it…the truth was I had a older razor and thought to myself “Why do I need a Blackberry”...had way to many buttons on it, to many features etc etc etc. I thought a phone was for making calls, period.

But the wife and daughter kept telling me how great it was and how helpful it would be in my business…and you know what…they were right. Once I got use to it and entered the 21st century…I love it.

I can be at one job site, one of my crews can contact me from another with a problem…and basically it is my office away from home, I use the web to find specs on line to things we are installing at a job site and send it to the crew, I can contact a manufacturer and order replacement parts or receive and send e-mails to clients, track shipments to see when some parts are coming in etc etc etc.

Basicly it has saved me a ton of time AND money.

-- Don S.E. OK

There you go Don! It’s amazing how quickly a gadget can pay for itself. I too listened to (a dear friend’s) daughter who really thinks I’m behind. Now I owe her dinner…

-- Elaine, Conover, NC

No wonder he was aggravated you were looking at the Blackberry. You are probably not the first person to avoid being conned by him because of it.

You really can’t trust anybody trying to sell stuff these days. I keep an eye on my local Craigslist for tools, and I see so much attempted rip-off it’s ridiculous.

-- Charlie M. "Woodworking - patience = firewood"

Charlie, what kinds of rip off? Like this one lying about the quality and price of the item? I have to wonder how much of the stuff on Craigslist and ebay is stolen??

-- Debt is nothing more than the 21st Century's form of slavery.

I have a blackberry – I think it’s pretty amazing, the games like brickbreaker are a great way to suck up your time though!

I get offended that I see things on TV like jitterbug designed to make us old timers look dumb!

-- Carving

Elaine, this guy has been on Iwanna for over a year trying to sell this stuff.

-- Jerry--A man can never have enough tools or clamps

You should tell him that you will buy all that stuff he showed you, then after he moved all of it out to his driveway, hand him a stack of monopoly money.

While on the subject of classified scams, make sure not to buy those big box store gift cards for a discount too. Those are bought by returning stolen good or with stolen credit cards, and the gift card will become void not long after

-- Ed

Grandpaw -I thought the jitterbug was a dance -don’t tell me it aint so! I had lots of fun in my younger days…

Jerry – Goes to show you I don’t buy it that often, I think three times in the last year. Folks are looking for a dining room suite complete with china cabinet. And today the doctor said I could mess around, no hand tools, no lathe, enough to make a board to stretch my feet. I think he’s a woodworker since he demonstrated the movement of hand planing…

Ed – You’re faster than I, monopoly money is just what I needed.

-- Elaine, Conover, NC

I love my blackberry.

SOmebody want to give me a Blackberry?

-- Jerry--A man can never have enough tools or clamps

I’ve been eating blackberries for years and can only agree they are really good.

-- Mike, American in Norway

They are almost ripe up at the tree farm :-)

-- Debt is nothing more than the 21st Century's form of slavery.