26 Jan
2013
26 Jan
'13
4:33 a.m.
On 1/25/2013 9:39 PM, Gary Oliver wrote:
My eBay 'watch list' is getting full of
Sellam's stuff :-( Things I
would love to have but won't touch under the current circumstances
are flying by every day.
And I know many of the items would (should) fetch much more than
they seem to be getting... It's very sad this is happening... I've
seen several important items I *know* must be one-of's that should
be conserved.
Gary,
I'm not really directing this at you, but maybe the group in general.....
Wouldn't someone in the community purchasing these items at least keep
them in trusted hands? I mean, what's really the alternative?
Also, I apologize for the double negative but doesn't the fact that
some/most/all of the community isn't bidding on the stuff artificially
deflating the price? I mean, isn't it selling for less because other
normally-interested bidders aren't bidding?
And sure, I understand that the idea might be to reduce the total take
of the so-called-evil-reseller (not judging here, really) but then why
be unhappy when you're successful?
So then what happens? Someone who doesn't really care much about the
items win them at a lower price? And then resell the item later at a
profit. And instead of US profiting, we let someone else do it because
it's blood money.
But for how many generations is this item poisoned for? First resale is
clearly bad(I guess). How about the second? The third? How do we even
know if it's part of the evil collection?
And while we are talking about this, why not talk about people buying
foreclosed homes? Surely that is profiting off of other people's
misfortune/loss? Repo'd cars? Lost items at airport auctions? Items at
Pawn shops?
This is unfortunate indeed. I just hope that not too many of these items
end up leaving the community as a result of our own actions.
Keith