Kim wrote, in part:
"So much for that. eBay is a sport and people should play fair."
Uh....ebay is *not* a sport. Ebay is commerce. Thus, the word "fair" is irrelevent. In fact, I'd go so far as to say that the old aphorism about love and war should be amended to read: "'All's fair in love, war, and commerce." At least as capitalism and markets are handled in this day and age.
I do my best to conduct my business with integrity, as do many others. But, in general, integrity in markets is in very short supply these days. I could bring up the issue of just who is rebuilding Iraq, for instance, but this is not the forum for that. Examples of "all's fair in commerce" abound, great and small, anywhere you look.
There are even people in the vintage bike biz who I would never do business with because the word integrity is meaningless to them. Not many, but a few I'm aware of.
It's a jungle out there and if we know it, and understand it, we do better, perhaps.
Charles Andrews
SoCal