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than me, it is wrong. That is NOT what I said. I said it's one thing to overpay on a stand-alone basis; what Dennis K. is doing is overpaying on a consistent basis. Very different things. -----Original Message----- From: cctalk-bounces at classiccmp.org [mailto:cctalk-bounces at classiccmp.org] On Behalf Of Jim Battle Sent: Saturday, July 16, 2005 2:28 PM To: General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts Subject: Re: Oops -- hit 'enter' too soon -- rest of message here -- RE: Need contact information for dkdkk 'Computer Collector Newsletter' wrote: ... ... Paraphrase: when I do it, it is OK, but when the other guy does it more than me, it is wrong. As has been pointed out, the price is set by the 2nd highest bidder, so DK isn't to blame. If DK makes lower max price bids but which are still high enough to win, it won't drop the price of auctions one whit. The only way to get the average price down is to ask him to lose more auctions. Do you think he'll agree to it? Besides, haven't we seen this a number of times before? fdbruce is selling all sorts of "interesting" (to me) machines on ebay for the past few months. A year or two ago he was one of those deep pocket buyers. He got tired and now they are getting injected back into the system. No harm done. Well, other than he is currently selling a "in need of repairs" Sol-20 and separately a microcomplex 80/64 video mod board which obviously originally was part of the at modified Sol-20 (without this board, that Sol won't do anything). DK's intentions are not our business. I doubt he is using them to test a grinding machine. These machines will appear again. How many people on this list have systems, most of which will sit in a pile somewhere until they get resold on ebay or traded for some other system? Isn't this a waste? How is it much different from DK's presumed "sin" of hoarding?