Aaah, but who said we were talking about super-rare items? We weren't. We were talking about getting "deals" - mostly on more mundane (to those well-heeled collectors at least) items.....
I can give you some additional, more detailed info., but I'd rather do it off-list (hint, hint...). ;-)
'Nuf said?
Greg Parker
A2 MI USA
> Message: 17
> Date: Wed, 06 Nov 2002 18:32:57 -0700
> From: Chuck Schmidt <chuckschmidt@earthlink.net>
> Reply-To: chuckschmidt@earthlink.net
> To: classicrendezvous@bikelist.org
> Subject: Re: [CR] Dead Horse? It's eBay: Deal with it!
>
> Chuck Schmidt wrote:
> >
> >Greg Parker wrote:
> >>
> >(cut)
> >>What exactly does this have to do with what we were discussing, i.e. the
> >>request to not "out" neat eBay stuff until after the auction ends to
> satisfy
> >>"educational purposes" without driving prices up?
> >
> >I'm definitely not convinced that outing auctions drive up prices. This
> >supposes that the winner of the auction found out about it on the CR
> >list of 700 or so members. And without the existance of the CR list
> >things would be going for less? Hardly. Show me...
>
> Let me state this another way...
>
> The rare things are being bought consistently by a few well know buyers
> that leave the rest of us small fry in the dust when it comes to
> spending large coin. Outing auctions has no effect on these big
> spenders. I doubt they are even reading the list. And they are
> certainly not relying on people outing auctions to find stuff to buy.
>
> Chuck Schmidt
> SoPas, SoCal