Re: [CR] Dead Horse? It's eBay: Deal with it!

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From: <GPVB1@cs.com>
Subject: Re: [CR] Dead Horse? It's eBay: Deal with it!
To: classicrendezvous@bikelist.org
Date: Wed, 6 Nov 2002 23:01:59 EST

Oooh, oooh, that's too easy! Ask for something more difficult!

OK, pick any neato thing that Steven (for example, not singling anyone out, he just finds way cool stuff IMO) has "outed" recently, go look at the bid history, and you will frequently see that within eight hours (or less...) of his "outing" there were anywhere from 2 to 8 CR members that had put in bids, and the price had doubled or perhaps tripled. Often, some of us had also been already watching, but not bidding on, that item. QED.

Who else do you think (that is active on eBay worlwide) besides us 700 nerds is as nutso about this esoteric stuff as we are? As I said, IMO it's a *very* small niche.

Cheers,

Greg Parker A2 MI USA

Date: Wed, 06 Nov 2002 18:27:34 -0700
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> From: Chuck Schmidt <chuckschmidt@earthlink.net>
> Reply-To: chuckschmidt@earthlink.net
> To: classicrendezvous@bikelist.org
> Subject: Re: [CR] Dead Horse? It's eBay: Deal with it!
>
> Greg Parker wrote:
> >
> (cut)
> >What exactly does this have to do with what we were discussing, i.e. the
> >request to not "out" neat eBay stuff until after the auction ends to
> satisfy
> >"educational purposes" without driving prices up?
>
> I'm definitely not convinced that outing auctions drive up prices. This
> supposes that the winner of the auction found out about it on the CR
> list of 700 or so members. And without the existance of the CR list
> things would be going for less? Hardly. Show me...

>

> Chuck Schmidt

> SoPas, SoCal

>

> .