computer sales -- now only on e-bay???

From: Richard Erlacher <edick_at_idcomm.com>
Date: Tue May 21 08:57:32 2002

Oddly enough, eBay should reflect the highest prices. instead, some view it
as producing the lowest. I'm not sure where this logic comes from.

Dick

----- Original Message -----
From: "Loboyko Steve" <sloboyko_at_yahoo.com>
To: <cctalk_at_classiccmp.org>
Sent: Tuesday, May 21, 2002 7:18 AM
Subject: Re: computer sales -- now only on e-bay???


> Certainly, I didn't want it to seem as though this was
> "bad". Al Kossow has won an auction of mine and I
> think he does have a website with very useful stuff on
> it. Ebay is a fairly pure form of capitalism. It's
> just me crying in my beer about not having pockets as
> deep. Still, if one gets lucky, and finds something
> misclassified or I can catch someone sleeping
> (sometimes literally, at 2:00 AM), bargains can STILL
> be had on eBay.
>
>
>
> --- "Douglas H. Quebbeman" <dougq_at_iglou.com> wrote:
> > > Doc wrote:
> > >
> > > > I've also noticed tacit cooperation concerning
> > eBay auctions. If I
> > > >recognise a bid as made by a list member, I don't
> > bid against them, and
> > > >that seems to be the norm.
> > >
> > > Or, you soon realize that you shouldn't bother
> > bidding
> > > against AEK. <grin>
> >
> > There's another guy who bids on virtually everything
> > I want...
> > I "know" him, in that I've personally dealt with him
> > from
> > time to time... I don't think he's a subscriber
> > here, but
> > at any rate, I usually let him have the items, and
> > just
> > shrug it off (like a large removable disk drive
> > subsystem
> > that I honestly would have had trouble with
> > shipping).
> >
> > But I always get a big, big wide grin when AEK bids
> > against
> > the guy, and generally wins...
> >
> > BTW, the guy in question is a decent guy, didn't
> > want to
> > make it seem otherwise, it's just the his collection
> > has
> > no public face of any kind, and so it's like this
> > stuff
> > is just being sucked into a black hole...
> >
> > -dq
> >
>
>
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