12 Oct
2006
12 Oct
'06
7:07 a.m.
From: bpope at wordstock.com (Bryan Pope)
And thusly were the wise words spake by Jeff Walther
He Could actually be the same person that put the item for
bid or a shill for that seller.
Dwight
I bid on a Fujitsu magneto-optical drive. Ah, here's the URL still
on my Snipeswipe page
<http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=8786740987> .
I was willing to go to about $16 (with shipping it would have been
closer to $30).
After the auction, the high bidder had the gall to email me to tell
me that he sells items of the type I'm interested in and that I
should visit his store. Of course, he sells MO drives for well over
$100.
So this creature outbids me and then tries to turn around and sell me
the same item at a higher price. If I had been willing to pay more,
I would have bid higher.
I can't point out some way in which this behaviour is morally wrong,
but it is certainly irritating.
Maybe he thinks he is doing you a favour? (Or if this item doesn't
come up often, he believes he can extort some money out of you
depending on how much you want it..)
Cheers,
Bryan