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Originally Posted by Tony V
She sounds like a great gal to go through all that trouble for you. I'm happy that yours is now complete.
-Tony
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That lady is actually one of my favorite wholesale sellers. She seems pretty kind-hearted (witness her digging out that remote for me), but works in a difficult, hard-nosed business. She gets a lot of hassles from pushy and sometimes tricky African and Korean buyers, but deals with everything that comes her way with an iron backbone, yet nearly always keeping her aplomb and sense of humor. Almost all of them call her "Momma", and their conversations and negotiations in a broken, pidgin English (since neither side is fluent) sprinkled with a few Cantonese terms are fascinating to overhear. She has THREE large warehouse-like places (that I know of), probably making her one of the biggest dealers around, and she gets a fair amount of unusual and sometimes nice gear. Her daughter also works there, sometimes, and some of her helpers seem pretty friendly/helpful, too. I give these people a
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