17 Oct
2010
17 Oct
'10
7:11 p.m.
Ken Seefried wrote:
You're wrong again, because I've never bought anything on ebay, and so
therefore have never been outbid on anything :P
Do you really believe that there aren't people out there who buy things on the
spur of the moment, simply because they can, and because the "ooh, shiny!"
factor comes into play? In fact, I suspect that the majority of us have bought
things (shiny or otherwise) on a whim before, and subsequently tucked them
away out of sight or eventually thrown them away - all that varies is the
deepness of the pockets :-)
cheers
Jules
(I often think
that the downside of ebay is that an item goes to the
person > with the deepest pockets, and they're not necessarily the best
person to treat > an item nicely)>> >> So eBay is precisely like every
other market on the planet.>> >> Shocking. <rolls eyes>><rolls
eyes back>
I don't think that I claimed that it wasn't. My point was >that it often
has a downside when it comes to getting items to people who are >best
capable of preserving them for future generations.
My appologies, Jules.
I had taken your comment as Yet Another instance of the weekly "eBay sucks
because people pay more than I would and, as a special snowflake Classic
Computer person, I'm an authority and anyone who pays more than I would is
an idiot" thread, when in reality it was Yet Another instance of the weekly
"eBay sucks because anyone who outbids me is certainly almost possibly
definately as far as I'm concerned, as a Special Snowflake classic computer
person, unworthy to own it" thread. I sometimes lack the patience to keep
track of the multitude of ways that list members condescend to the world at
large.