I agree with you. I'd like to believe that free enterprise still
works. And I also wonder what these same individuals might do if they
were conspired against, say, when trying to sell a house? There's good
reason why corporate bid fixing sends people to jail.
Stefan Roundy wrote:
>
> I feel the same way. I wonder if these folks will be so keen to keep the
> bidders away when it is their item they are trying to sell? Maybe they
> should start another list of Spridget members who would bid against each
> other, but only when another enthusiast has placed a spare part up for
> auction. When large corporations get caught fixing bids, someone usually
> goes to jail. I've never sold anything on E-bay and don't know if I ever
> will, but should the opportunity ever arise it would be nice to know that
> there isn't a club with hundreds of members either asking, or pressuring
> other members to keep away. What's wrong with a free market...let the chips
> fall where they may. If someone wants to pay $100 for a $20 part, who
> cares??? If someone needs something for their car and can't afford what
> others are bidding, let him post his request on a bulletin board, or ask
> those on this list for a reasonable example. It surely isn't right to
> interfere with commerce in order to try to "steal" the part. I'd be
> interested to hear if others feel my comments are out of line.
> Cheers!
> Stefan
> -----Original Message-----
> From: type79@ix.netcom.com <type79@ix.netcom.com>
> To: Brad Fornal <toyman@htcomp.net>
> Cc: David Ramsey <dwramsey@worldnet.att.net>; spridgets@autox.team.net
> <spridgets@autox.team.net>
> Date: 10 December, 1999 10:13 AM
> Subject: Re: E-bay
>
> >Brad,
> >Good observation.
> >I have not responded to this thread (ugghh) for several reasons:
> >1) If I don't really want something, I don't bid on it in the first place.
> >2) I view this as a form of bid manipulation.
> >3) The items are going to be bid to their max anyway, regardless of whether
> or not some Spridget Listers exchange secret handshakes. There ARE other
> registered ebay users not on this list just as interested in these items.
> >
> >Jay Fishbein
> >
> >
> >Brad Fornal wrote:
> >
> >> Well mine is Toyman*htcomp. I have noticed that Jay has not offered up
> his ebay name, or maybe I missed it. Must be a privacy thing :-)
> <BG> Brad
> >>
> >> David Ramsey wrote:
> >>
> >> > Here I was just getting ready to put my rebuilt Lucas tach-drive
> generator with the tach drive on E-bay so I could send me and my sprite to
> Hawaii and retire. If anybody wants it I'll let it go for $5000, but I was
> hoping to get really big bucks for it. As to my bidding name "I forget".
> >> > Crash
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