Re: [CR]Vintage Pogliaghi Track Bicycle Bike FB crank Italy EBay

(Example: Framebuilding:Tubing:Falck)

Date: Sun, 05 Sep 2004 09:27:19 -0700
From: "Mark Wolfe" <markw@wolfenet.org>
To: Joe Bender-Zanoni <joebz@optonline.net>
Subject: Re: [CR]Vintage Pogliaghi Track Bicycle Bike FB crank Italy EBay
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It appears there were 3 bids on the pair. Check the history, I'd be steaming if I were bidding. Here's the original auction.

http://ebay.com/<blah>

Joe Bender-Zanoni wrote:
> I knew this would get people going!
>
> The problem for me is that an agreement is an agreement. The Ebay policy
> obligating the seller is:
> 5.2 Binding Bids. Except for items listed in a category under the
> Non-binding Bid Policy, if you receive at least one bid at or above your
> stated minimum price (or in the case of reserve auctions, at or above the
> reserve price), you are obligated as the seller to complete the transaction
> with the highest bidder upon the auction's completion, unless there is an
> exceptional circumstance, such as: (a) the buyer fails to meet the terms of
> your listing (such as payment method), or (b) you cannot authenticate the
> buyer's identity.
>
> In this case there were bids above the minimum and the seller had an
> obligation to sell. There was no mistake in the listing. In fact by offering
> a lot of two frames with a WYSIWYG disclaimer the seller was indicating that
> he didn't care to carefully describe what he was offering and was
> indifferent to the consequences. By the way, with good pictures this WYSIWYG
> type of listing often gets excellent results for people who know nothing
> about what they are selling. Even in this case I think the seller would have
> received a good fair price in the first auction and he didn't need to march
> off breaking agreements left and right in pursuit of top dollar.
>
> I guess I'm very firmly of the opinion that sellers should never back out of
> an agreed deal based on information as to value learned after agreeing to a
> deal.
>
> Joe Bender-Zanoni
> Great Notch, NJ
>>>>http://ebay.com/<blah>

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