One real story in ebay, after I found out a Raleigh Frame that "Bikenut" was selling, which had no bid on it. But he had an option calld "Buy it Now" at reasonable price.
After I checked with close friend (actually our web master) about seller's identity and the frame, I decided to e-mail the seller, our list member(Matthew Gorski) to stop the auction and asked to sell me the frame out of ebay so that he did not have to pay ebay commission.
Well, it took me a few minutes to do that. To my great surprise, some one else HIT the "Buy it Now" key within 100 seconds (a minute and half) while I was writing the e-mail. I lost the Raleigh frame. But, Matthew was very nice and kind enough to find me another British frame at the same price range and exact size I needed.
The ebay is its own establishment we have no control, BUT how sweet to have so many nice, kind, generous understanding C-R members, dont' you agree?
KEN TODA, High Point, NC, my LBS is the webmaster's nest!