In a message dated 11/5/2002 8:38:39 PM Eastern Standard Time, richardsachs@juno.com writes:
<< dale, et al i am cutting/pasting this text from my original post:
these words were central to my point of view. >>
In a message dated 11/5/2002 7:03:50 PM Eastern Standard Time, GPVB1@cs.com writes:
<< the only weapons we have at our disposal are knowledge and stealth. "Outing" something drops a grenade on the stealth part, and puts money directly into the seller's pocket. Unless you are getting a direct commission from the seller based on the final "hammer price," why do that? >>
Well............ it seems these two messages are back to the same point again!
So it turns out is not the proliferation of eBay discussions on the CR that is objectionable to some of you, but instead the alerting of other bidders to the auction that you want to win or perhaps do not want comments on. This is a very much less defendable position, as it is based upon your own self interest over the communal dialogue about those items.. Yes, even a bit selfish. And the seller deserves the highest price that the market will provide. I am not crazy about the high prices that some items have sold for but I staunchly believe in a free marketplace!
If that philosophy of not wanting outing on the CR list was taken by a seller, one could almost assume that they did not want an informed buyer but would rather that the item not be defined so closely so as to possibly reveal negatives about it...
I might wish for a stealth mode if I really wanted to buy a particular item at auction, but I wouldn't have the nerve to request and expect that everyone on the CR list shut up about that auction until I had won... Who was it that said, "This does not smack of nobility but of blatant self interest!" Shakespeare? Groucho Marx?
Dale Brown
Greensboro, North Carolina