eBay madness

From: Ed Kelleher <Pres_at_macro-inc.com>
Date: Tue Aug 31 14:53:27 2004

At 12:30 PM 8/31/2004, you wrote:
>The feeding frenzy at the end, or sniping, is now done by software that
>submit your bid with seconds to spare, eliminating counter bids. People
>are using computers to beat the eBay computers.

Oww!
They got me!
<thud>

Outbid in the last 6 seconds on an RD54.

I agree with Teo though.
You put your max bid out there,
and if you get it - great!
If not, well I didn't want it at that price.

If eBay, and the Internet, were not there all this stuff would be going in
the dumpster instead.

What's a fair price on an RD54?
Sold 5 last week for $300 each.

Had bought them years back though and paid probably $1700 apiece for them.

It's the free market at work and it's a great thing - for everyone.

Got my daughter a Toshiba laptop when she went off to college a few years back.
She managed to step on the screen within a month or two.
(Remembering how her room was usually knee deep in crap I wasn't too
surprised).
Anyway, found someone on eBay last week selling the same laptop for parts,
with no cpu, drives, or memory.
But the screen was good and I got it for $38+shipping and it had a good
battery.

Without eBay and the Internet we both would have lost out.
By far and away a very beneficial thing for everyone.

Most complaints I think are just sour grapes. :-)

Ed
Received on Tue Aug 31 2004 - 14:53:27 BST

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