Re: [Amps] Blowing off steam

[Don Havlicek <n8de@thepoint.net>]

Will,
Don't forget that there are 'shills' out there ... and 'illegal bidders'.
In both cases .. they drive up the prices for the seller.
The 'shills' are 'hired' by the sellers ... some are just 'friends' .. 
but they are not interested in winning the item .. just getting the 
price ridiculously high.
The 'illegal bidders' are usually the seller, using a different loging, 
bidding on his/her own item ... sometimes with two or three different 
accounts.
Remember .. the only 'check' that ebay has of who/where a person is ... 
is what email address and mail address they use.... many are fictitious!
Don
N8DE

Will Matney wrote:
> Not to break up a good conversation here about extra large amps, but I 
> gotta comment on something I've noticed over the past few days on Ebay. 
> I've been watching several pieces of equipment, and I have to say, the 
> general population, or the ones who are bidding there, flat puts me 
> beside myself. I've watched the price on several old Heathkit dip 
> meters, with several days to go for the auction, go up from day one, to 
> almost $75-$80 dollars! I meant the same ones bidding every day, several 
> times!
>
> (1) Why bid on an item with five days to go, all the while raising the 
> end price?
>
> (2) Why do the same ones keep doing it, over, and over, and over?
>
> (3) Do they have endlessly deep pockets from which money flows?
>
> (4) Are they so dense that they can not tell what they are doing?
>
> (5) Why does it bother them that someone outbid them with that many days 
> to go, then keep on bidding back?
>
> (6) Why aren't these folks smart enough to wait at least to the last day 
> to bid, or better yet, if they're home, bid at the last minute?
>
> (7) Do these same people not understand anything about economics, or 
> what they are doing?
>
> All in all, it makes me think about Jay Leno's "Jay Walking" skit. I 
> didn't know there was that many folks out there that dense.
>
> Shaking my head,
>
> Will Matney
>
> EOM
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