You guys are 100% correct about character. Your example, nynor, is
exactly what I would have done. I don't care how bad I need the $$, I cannot sell something using deception, (not saying that you did either), and to go a step further, I want to know that the person buying my widget really wants it or needs it.
I just watched "Wall Street" last night for the first time. (Believe it or not). There is a great line in the special features of the DVD when an honest trader w/ a seat on the NYSE says, "your character/good name is something that you spend your whole life building and you can lose it in an instant..." So true.
It's just that with free-market capitalism and trade, (which I'm all for FWIW), sometimes things are not cut and dry if you have character. If you don't, anything goes and it's easy. If you do have it, some situations require a lot of thought and introspection. A huge part of making a profit is knowing something that someone else does not know.
