FlyinNover

It sounds like some of you are saying NOT to get it inspected first? (that it'd be excessive) Am I understanding you correctly? How does this normally work? Seller places ad, buyer and seller negotiate, seller sends to buyer's rigger, transaction takes place? If that's what it is, I don't want to be paying to send it around to all the interested buyers' riggers. ---Michael

First off, I apologize if this is the wrong forum for this post. I want to sell my Sabre 190 (canopy only, no rig). More specs at the bottom of this post. 1: I have no idea what it's worth. It's got about 800 jumps on it, I'm the third owner that I'm aware of. I got a good deal on it from my sister (full rig for $500), so I can't base its value on what I paid for it. How do I go about pricing it? 2: I'm gong to have a rigger check it out before I put it up for sale. Would a typical rigger mind if I included their info in the ad? As in: "For sale, canopy, checked and certified by John Rigger at Skydive Suchandsuch on 3/10/09, FAA # 12345" 3: Where besides DZ.com is the best place to sell it? I'm very familiar with Ebay, but I *think* it'd be better to sell it somewhere skydiving related, like at a DZ. Any thoughts? Thanks in advance for your help! More Specs: It's been sitting in a plastic trash bag in a dry basement for 5+ years. Before that it was in a Talon container that some soulless prick stole out of my car. I don't know why they didn't take the canopy, but I don't try to delve into the logic of thieves. Because of this history I can't personally vouch that it has all the components it should have. I know enough about skydiving to know that I don't know enough about gear. Hence, the rigger. For what it's worth, I never jumped it. My sister did, and the owner before her. ---Michael

Oh MAN! Why can't we see stuff like this? American commercials are so pussified.

. . .what things would you want to know about the neighborhood and what business are close-by? I own a rental and plan to buy many more, and I'd like to provide any new tenants with important phone numbers and locations. Hospital, Fire Dept., Post Office, supermarkets, things like that. I also am including a map with local banks, ATMs, laundromats, gas stations......all these things can be found out pretty easily by a tenant, but I'm in the business of KEEPING tenants, not turnover, so I try to do everything I can to make the transition easier for them. (For instance, I helped my current tenants move in. When their lease was up and they went to month-to-month, they said that help was a big factor in them staying in my place.) So what would you want to know? "Hey landlord, where's the closest ________?"

If you're not SURE you can fix the Jeep's transmission yourself, then don't try it. I learned that lesson 1,500 times, if you catch my drift. (I actually keep my now-smooth fifth gear as decoration....it serve to remind me not to go in over my head.)

Nice!!! That was actually a pretty decent movie I thought. Guess you never heard from her again? Actually I got lucky that night and we dated for a few months. It's a good thing we both had a sense of humor about picking a movie neither of us knew anything about. In other bad dating news, I have a friend who went on a first date and the girl asked him to write down a few things about himself so that she could, "ask him about them in a few weeks to see if he remembered what he said or if he made them up." There wasn't a second date.

A bad first date movie is "Kids". Learned that the hard way.

I had this question answered when I asked on DZ.com if I should or shouldn't count two tandems in my log book as part of my jumping history, since I did them years before I started AFF. The response was, "Did you or didn't you leave the plane?" ---Nover (who is NOT currently a skydiver, but did a couple dozen jumps a few years back, so I WAS a skydiver. And even I know what a BOC is.)

Your momma's so fat she eats Wheat Thicks. Your momma's so fat.......DAMN that bitch is fat!

Ebay and Paypal will NEVER provide a link in an email. They will always give you instructions like "Type www.ebay.com into your browser. Then click on 'My Ebay'. . ." etc. I tell people to always mouse-over the link first before you click on it. If you don't recognize the site it's sending you to or it looks suspicious, don't click on it.

Rialto Ripples Rag by George Gershwin. Even better if you speed it up like a Benny Hill episode.

The first Bush was President, his wife read a story to my mother's 4th grade class. This was a great thread.

Is that fun to ride? There is a similar one at Six Flags Great Adventure in New Jersey. It's only a hundred or so feet high, not that fun. Your picture makes it look higher than GA's. Now Kingda Ka......that's a fun ride. I waited 3 and a half hours for the front car, a 50 second ride........AND I WOULD DO IT AGAIN!!!

"Jocks only think about sports. Nerds only think about sex."

Who Is Cletis Tout? Red Violin Twenty Bucks Butterfly Effect (director's cut)