While at University I learned a valuable lesson about how people 'value'
an item. There were two venues of classic films being shown. One was FREE,
just show up and watch. The other cost a pittance, but still cost you a
coin. Both venues showed relatively equal quality of films, but in the
'free' venue you could barely watch, let alone enjoy. Attendees were
talking all the time, or worse, throwing paper trash about to gain some
attention [much like today's internet]. In the other venue, you could hear
a pin drop and really enjoy the film. The lesson? People don't value
what's free. So don't give them anything. Always, always make them pay
something and they will value the gift. A small sign, "Works, yours for a
donation of $1.00" probably would have gotten the item into someone's
hands, even stolen at least. Sorry, didn't mean to bring up the evils of
presenting temptation to the weak.


On Tue, 27 Aug 2013 14:52:56 -0700, Stormin Mormon
wrote:

Amazing, in this modern and changing society.

Things used to be valuable, now can't give em
away. I had a CRT computer monitor from the
church. Fairly recent, works fine. They went with
flat panel, and gave me the old one. I've got too
many monitors, so I put it on the curb.

Couple days later, it's still there. I look, and
someone cut off the wire, but left the rest.

Five years ago, the church probably paid $300
for that monitor. Now, I can't give it away free.

What is this world coming to?

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Christopher A. Young
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