e-bay item

From: Noel Fields <nfields_at_ix.netcom.com>
Date: Mon Mar 1 18:49:49 1999

Ok, I'm sorry here, but I am going to step in, as the person that posted about
the e-bay item. My motivation was VERY simple. I saw, a manual that I had
just read, was hard to come by. I saw, that no one had bidded on this item,
and that the price was 1 dollar! Not overpriced like many items, but ONE
DOLLAR.

I felt, that there might be someone on this list, that could benefit from this
manual, and MIGHT JUST WANT TO KNOW about this chance to purchase this manual.

If you feel this is wrong, I am terribly sorry for bothering your e-mail with
my post. But I am sincerely tired, of trying to pass on information that I
feel others honestly may want to know about, and frankly getting hell over it.

Sorry to those that this doesn't apply too, but I think this needs to be said.

    Noel

Doug wrote:

> On Mon, 1 Mar 1999, Marvin wrote:
>
> > Hmmm, with all the DEC handbooks being mentioned here, why do you have a
> > problem with telling people the handbook is available? Somehow, it
> > seems like harassing people who post ebay auctions (and other items
> > elsewhere) really doesn't do a bit of good except to provide a bit of
> > irritation.
>
> I thought we'd been through this before. The only thing advertising an
> auction does is encourage a bidding war and drives the price up. This
> benefits the seller, and nobody else. Are you suggesting that somebody
> else might deserve the item more than the people who had already spotted
> it and/or bid on it?
>
> If somebody mentions something here that was offered via Usenet or some
> other sales outlet, then the advantage would have gone to anybody who had
> been actively looking for the item and had spotted it earlier.
>
> Given that you're a frequent seller on ebay, I can only guess at your
> motivation for bringing this up again. Surely you're aware that ebay
> slants the advantage toward the seller (the reserve trap door, the
> silly proxy system, national advertising, etc.), that prices of classic
> computing stuff on ebay is spiraling out of control, and that buyers could
> use a break.
>
> -- Doug
Received on Mon Mar 01 1999 - 18:49:49 GMT