Sniping Does Not Require Justification!

Ebay is trying to turn into a store and ditch the flea market format, which is why BIN is so cheap to list. Some people have no idea what retail is, so they have no clue if they are overpaying. How much does it cost for an individual to get credit card payments any other way then Payapal? Do you want to take my bad check for a $1000 laptop around Christmas, how about a fake Post Office money order? I am sure it is nice being able to do a retaliatory negative feedback on ebay for something the seller screwed up in the first place. Ebay is tilted toward the buyer just like any other store, the seller still get millions of eyeballs to offer their products but get squeezed out by the large corporate commodity sellers just like in real life. The fact is without ebay the vintage computer equipment market would crash overnight. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Dan Gahlinger" <dgahling at hotmail.com> To: <cctalk at classiccmp.org> Sent: Friday, February 11, 2011 6:11 PM Subject: RE: Sniping Does Not Require Justification! in fact, normally early bids before the last day have driven the price up beyond full retail. there's no longer any point in bidding on the item. I've seen this happen a lot. people still buy items because 1) they're stupid and 2) they think since it's fleabay they must be getting a deal and with the tie-in to paypal and excessive fees, and lack of sellers being able to leave negative feedback for buyers, it's really gone down hill.