If someone doesn't want to let their identity be known, as far as I'm concerned, they are fair game. What would be their problem in being outbid by a CR member who doesn't know them from a bale of hay. In some cases, they would be fair game anyway. I usually try to discuss this with a known member, but there are really no "rules" here, just what you are personally comfortable with, ethically, morally, etc. Good luck if you want something I want. Admittedly my tastes are very close to the bottom of the scale, moneywise. Most of these items, that you guys are discussing, are so far out of my affordability realm, that I probably should not even offer an opinion.
John Dunn in Napa Valley, where this weekend, at the wine auction, people are paying prices for wine that are so far out of my affordability realm, that the price of major luxury cars come to mind.
> Dale and group:
>
> I too tend to defer bidding on components / bikes on eBay when it means
> competing with a CR listmember. I do make exceptions to this policy. For
> example, "oldlugs" seems to go after damned near everything that I am
> interested in buying. On occasions I will attempt to outbid him on
something
> and recall that he mentioned once in a message to the list (or perhaps in
post
> bid correspondence over a Zeus that he won) that he also played that way.
I do
> understand others' positions that it is an open market and, as such, is
fair
> game for anyone that wants to go after an item.
>
> That said, it would be useful for those of us that generally refrain from
> bidding against CR members to know the eBay pseudonyms that they use.
Perhaps
> Dale or other listers would volunteer to compile and distribute a listing
of
> them.
>
> For the record, I'm "ctycycle" on eBay. No hard feelings if you guys snipe
me.
> Really! I'll just put you on the no-holds-barred sub-list <grin>.
>
> Charlie Young
> Honeybrook, PA
> Oh no, not only do you know where I bid, you know where I live.
>
>
> > Well.... that is some bicycle! I would love to have it but I know it
will be
> > "too rich for my blood". Are we ready to start a pool as to predicting
the
> > final selling price? Of course, the reserve could be set higher than
buyers
> > are willing to go. Should be fun to see. I wish I had a rich relative
who
> > would conveniently pass away and leave me a small fortune!!!
> > Also, I notice some bidders for various eBay items who I think may be CR
> > members but because they are being stealthy (why?) their bidding names
have
> > no relationship to their regular e-mail identities. Without knowing
what
> > their IDs are, I cannot decide whether to defer to them in the bidding..
> > Can''t think of an easy solution either! Ideas?
> >
> > Dale Brown
> > Greensboro, North Carolina