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alka joshi · Aug 18, 2013, 11:20 AM

I wish to purchase a wooden lap top table foladable for my personal use on line. So can I do it.

Curlyben · Aug 18, 2013, 11:21 AM

Sure you can and I'm sure a useful newbie poster will arrive with a link soon enough..

joypulv · Aug 18, 2013, 04:23 PM

Useful newbie?
LOL
Type 'wooden laptop table' into ebay.com search, if you are in the US. You will see about 15 choices for sale.
There are other ebays in other countries.

ma0641 · Aug 18, 2013, 08:43 PM

According to Amazon they have 124 of them, all different styles.

tickle · Aug 19, 2013, 08:39 AM

Originally Posted by Curlyben

Sure you can and I'm sure a useful newbie poster will arrive with a link soon enough..

Hay ! Are u saying we don't have any useful old posters around here!

Wondergirl · Aug 19, 2013, 08:47 AM

Originally Posted by tickle

Hay ! are u saying we don't have any useful old posters around here!

I suspect Ben was having a bit o' fun because he expected the OP to return under a new name and post a link to this product and a particular company. That's usually what happens with this kind of post.

joypulv · Aug 19, 2013, 09:04 AM

'cept he wrote too naively to be a seller, I thought

Wondergirl · Aug 19, 2013, 09:05 AM

Originally Posted by joypulv

'cept he wrote too naively to be a seller, I thought

Most of them write that way.

joypulv · Aug 19, 2013, 09:15 AM

Originally Posted by Wondergirl

Most of them write that way.

Oh 'k

Wondergirl · Aug 19, 2013, 09:30 AM

Originally Posted by joypulv

oh 'k

A wide-eyed innocent looking for a hotel in Dubai for his next vacation or hoping to find great prices on flat-panel monitors. Then bingo bango! "someone" (same guy under a different name) posts a link about great prices. We were getting shoe and purse links for a while but those dropped off for vacation resorts and hotels.

joypulv · Aug 19, 2013, 10:30 AM

Yes yes yes too funny, you are right, so right. I had a weak, unjaded moment.
How DO we adjust from sensitive, caring helpers to suspicious, jaded, flippant troll spotters (who keep a lid on it) in a split second?
This is not a rhetorical question - but I probably should ask it in the member forum. I promised.

Curlyben · Aug 19, 2013, 10:53 AM

Originally Posted by joypulv

Yes yes yes too funny, you are right, so right. I had a weak, unjaded moment.
How DO we adjust from sensitive, caring helpers to suspicious, jaded, flippant troll spotters (who keep a lid on it) in a split second?
This is not a rhetorical question - but I probably should ask it in the member forum. I promised.

Years of practice and a pessimistic outlook.

Wondergirl · Aug 19, 2013, 10:55 AM

Originally Posted by joypulv

Yes yes yes too funny, you are right, so right. I had a weak, unjaded moment.
How DO we adjust from sensitive, caring helpers to suspicious, jaded, flippant troll spotters (who keep a lid on it) in a split second?
This is not a rhetorical question - but I probably should ask it in the member forum. I promised.

Usually the mods catch the trolls (especially the ad-link ones) fairly quickly, and most of their posts don't stay visible very long. On this thread, since Ben said what he did, the OP, realizing he had been caught, may have decided not to post a link under a different name.

As far as I know, we are to take each question seriously and deal with it like it's real. If you think it's a troll or there's a problem with it, RIP it with a comment and the mods will check further.

Alty · Aug 19, 2013, 11:35 AM

Originally Posted by joypulv

Yes yes yes too funny, you are right, so right. I had a weak, unjaded moment.
How DO we adjust from sensitive, caring helpers to suspicious, jaded, flippant troll spotters (who keep a lid on it) in a split second?
This is not a rhetorical question - but I probably should ask it in the member forum. I promised.

Joy, over the years I've learned that most people that post about something they wish to purchase, that's very easy to find, especially online, are here to place an ad. They probably read our rules on ads, and therefore knew any ad they placed would be deleted. So to get around it, they ask a question instead, then sign on as a different user and answer their own question, with an ad to their product.

It is hard to adjust from helpful, caring, sensitive, to suspicious, jaded, troll spotters. That's why it's best to just wait on threads like these, to see if someone comes along with a link for the product the OP is looking for. If it's a newbie, RIP it and let the mods figure out what's going on. :)

In this case it would seem that the OP really couldn't figure out how to find this simple item online, or he got scared away when he realized we were on to him.

joypulv · Aug 19, 2013, 11:55 AM

'That's why it's best to just wait on threads like these,'
Yes, I got to wait more.