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

(Example: Racing:Jean Robic)

From: "M4Campy" <M4Campy@aol.com>
To: classicrendezvous@bikelist.org
Subject: Re: [CR] Dead Horse? It's eBay: Deal with it!
References: <146.2204c5f.2afb3fb7@cs.com> <3DC9E832.80305@aol.com> <3DC9EEE2.FD479617@earthlink.net>
Date: Wed, 06 Nov 2002 23:13:15 -0700

chuckschmidt@earthlink.net wrote:
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>Ah my favorite... while two CR members make arrangements between
>themselves so the price doesn't go up (artificially keeping down the
>auction price) someone else comes in and snipes them! Ho, ho.
> So, what is the solution? All is fair in bikes and ebay? It is up to each person, if you don't want to bid against another member fine. If you do fine. If you bid against each other and the price triples fine. If you decide not to and I snipe it cheaply fine :-)

It still all comes down to what you are willing to pay for that neato item... I would rather in the spirit of the list at least have an option to defer to another member. It just seems to me that parts are not the only things that we horde. I remember being flamed when I out- ed esnipe like it was some big secret. Or, when we out an item on ebay that was spelled wrong or on a foreign auction board, etc...

Like all of a sudden we are loosing some advantage that was worked for... Heck, I like seeing the outings for the pics. I don't have an extensive collection, have not seen many of the items shown, etc...

I wonder what would happen if Dale ran an auction board on his site??? All bets off!!!

Mike Wilkinson
Parker, CO