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   Message 614 of 2,177   
   Roy Witt to Roger Nelson   
   1996 M-B (was Motorcycles (was Value tap   
   02 Dec 11 18:17:08   
   
   01 Dec 11 09:16, Roger Nelson wrote to Roy Witt:   
      
    RN>> 1996 C-220.  The one at that site looks too large, but I'm going   
    RN>> back there this morning and have another look.   
      
    RW>> I'll bet it won't fit. There has been a lot of changes to that car   
    RW>> since 96. If it were a GM car, it would fit.   
      
    RN> Looking hard at the face of it assures me it won't fit.  I'll keep at   
    RN> it until I find one.  I don't think I'll be able to get an OEM unless   
    RN> I want to go backwards (NOT!) and get one with a cassette player.   
    RN> So, I'll look for a Sony or a Pioneer.   
      
   You can buy a Sony and/or a Pioneer radio, like you're wanting, at Walmart   
   for about $100...I have a Pioneer in my race car to listen to tunes and   
   the announcer while at the track. The announcer broadcasts on 97.1, a   
   clear channel in SA and I like listening to 101.1, an oldies but goodies   
   station in SA. That old music helps to calm the nerves...   
      
    RN>> I remember that from when I bought stuff via eBay.  Nowadays, the   
    RN>> sellers want the buyer to pay via PayPal and I won't go that route.   
      
    RW>> That's the only way to go, unless you're going to send him a   
    RW>> personal check or pay with a postal money order by mail. A PayPal   
    RW>> account is free and would only cost you money when you sell   
    RW>> something and your buyer pays through PayPal. Some of the Ebay   
    RW>> sellers won't accept anything else for payment.   
      
    RN> The last time I went through PayPal, I bought a motherboard from a   
    RN> guy.  It wouldn't work, so I contacted him directly and he sent   
    RN> another just like it.  I contacted him again and he refunded my   
    RN> purchase price through PayPal and they cut out a small slice for   
    RN> themselves, which I thought was wrong. That's why I no longer deal   
    RN> with them.   
      
   The seller should have included a statement in the payment to PayPa that   
   it was a refund and not a sale...not PayPals fault that he didn't do that.   
      
    RN>>> I fell 30" to the tile-over-reinforced concrete floor below in   
    RN>>> less than a tenth of a second.  I haven't figured out how fast I   
    RN>>> was going yet.  :-)   
      
    RW>>> How do you know it was less than a tenth of a second?   
      
    RN> As I said, it was a guess.   
      
    RN>> A body falls at the rate of 32 feet per second per second.  In other   
    RN>> words, mine was a guess.  What do you calculate?  (-:   
      
    RW>> 30" at 32 fet per second means that you hit the floor in .078   
    RW>> seconds or less.   
      
    RN> Okay.  (-:   
      
    RW>> There was no time left to acclerate to per second per second.   
      
    RN> I was too busy hurting to notice and it was a rude awakening from a   
    RN> deep sleep.   
      
   I'll bet!   
      
      
                   R\%/itt   
      
      
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