Sunday, September 04, 2005

The Cycle is Now Complete

This Friday evening, we delivered our much misaligned white goods to a new apartment renter in Western Sydney. After packaging both washing machine and refrigerator together in the same online posting, plus promising free delivery to serious buyers only, we received numerous enquiries via email wanting to purchase the fridge and washing machine from us.

Now, on to the ethical dilemmas involved with selling used items. If one knows that one's refrigerator might be crawling with cokkahs, should one make the best effort possible to sell said refrigeration unit -- does that not justify him/her/us/me of any negative karma? The fridge itself was a fully functional piece of equipment, but it was merely the emotional baggage that it carried after our 'night of squishing' which caused us to re-sell it. Had we not put considerable effort in ridding said refrigeration unit of said cokkahs, it may be a different scenario. But, with our self-appointed purgatory (see details in previous post) in cleaning the unit, my belief is that we had freed ourselves from any wrong doing.

In terms of the washing machine, which was also (to the best of our knowledge) a fully functioning piece of machinery. Just because one's washing machine might be demonically possessed and require one to conduct an impromptu exorcism in order for said washing machine to function at a decibel level suitable for human tolerance, does not mean that the washing machine cannot be resold without the proper caveat. As posted, 'suitable for those with separate laundry room -- runs a bit noisy', which was re-emphasized in person upon delivery as well. Don't have a problem with jackhammer-like noises coming out of your laundry room? Great, this is the machine for you.

So ends this chapter, hopefully. We now have a happily functioning fridge (our third) as well as a quietly running washing machine (our second), no more curbside installations for the neighbors to fume over. We even managed to finish a pint or two in the black, having charged a little more for the delivery of our passed-on white goods. The lesson to be learned in all this, if you are buying or renting or dealing with in anyway a stranger that you contact through the internet, make sure to Google that name, because there could be a blog being written about all the nasty motivations that has lead them to contact you in the first place.

posted by ncawthon at 3:35 PM