27 Apr
2001
27 Apr
'01
2:36 a.m.
Quoting Mike Ford <mikeford(a)socal.rr.com>om>:
Trying to get a few more bidders on your ebay auction
is typically
seen as merchantile, not friendly, activity. ... YES you are doing
it for the money, not the pure pursuit of junk collecting.
There's nothing wrong, when selling something, with wanting to be paid
what it is worth. Since the 'worth' of something can be effectively
defined as 'how much people would pay for it', eBay makes an excellent
tool. Sure there are some items that get bid up to what we think are
horrid prices, but remember, those items are actually worth that much
to the high bidders, or the high bids would not have been placed.
When posting news of auctions to this list, I argue that most people
would do it not to get a few more bidders, but to inform those who
don't *live* on eBay about items they might be extremely interested
in.
--
Jeffrey S. Sharp
jss(a)ou.edu