[AJD] Haven't seen one of these in a coon's age

[Ronald L. Cook]

I ran accross an ebay seller that falls under the sheisser definition. 
A real SOB.  I bought the item for cheap, alright.  But...when it 
arrived, it was unusable.  The damage that rendered it unusable was not 
shown in the photo of the item, nor was it included in the description. 
  I brought this up to the seller and received a reply that basically 
said, I bought it cheap so don't complain.  Seeing as how I was stuck 
with the item, I posted a negative feedback.  I immediately received a 
negative feedback from the seller, which to this date is the only 
negative I have ever had posted.  Then that seller and identification 
disappeared.  By golly, I learned a lesson.  If you are going to post a 
negative feedback, be sure the person has already posted to you so they 
cannot retaliate.  Most of what is contained on all feedbacks, in my 
opinion, is just plain BS.  There just can't be that many wonderful 
buyers and sellers out there.<G>  Shipping and handling rates are often 
way too high.  I learned that the hard way also.  That no longer happens 
to me, I hope.  The worst case of my getting it stuck to me, however, 
was a private deal on some used jeep parts that had absolutely nothing 
to do with ebay at all.  Let me tell you.....those parts were USED.  The 
seller forgot to mention that they were used UP.  No longer serviceable. 
  Dumb me.  I got 1/2 my money back.  No longer do any business with 
that vendor.

6 degrees overnight.  Supposed to get to 42 this afternoon.  First day 
of winter.  Not all that bad here.

Ron Cook
Salix, IA

Dean VP wrote:
> Louis:
> 
> Here is the definition I was using:
> 
> NOUN: Slang. An unethical, unscrupulous practitioner, especially of law.
> 
> But since I have a Western European ancestry, you might want to consider
> what the American Heritage Dictionary describes as this words historical
> origins. As follows:
> 
> "Calling someone a shyster might be considered libelous; knowing its
> probable origin adds insult to injury. According to Gerald L. Cohen, a
> student of the word, shyster is derived from the German term scheisser,
> meaning literally "one who defecates," from the verb scheissen, "to
> defecate," with the English suffix -ster, "one who does," substituted for
> the German suffix -er, meaning the same thing. Sheisser, which is chiefly a
> pejorative term, is the German equivalent of our English terms bastard and
> son of a bitch. Sheisser is generally thought to have been borrowed directly
> into English as the word shicer, which, among other things, is an Australian
> English term for an unproductive mine or claim, a sense that is also
> recorded for the word shyster."
> 
> 
> Words have many different meanings to many different people.
> 
> 
> Dean A. Van Peursem
> Snohomish, WA 98290
> 
> Forbidden fruits create many jams!
> 
> www.deerelegacy.com
>