My general approach is not to bid against friends and CR/iBOB acquaintances on eBay auctions. I can't keep track of all of the eBay IDs though and I don't know what happened to the list that someone was preparing of names and pseudonyms. While I recognize that this practice can suppress the sale price that another CR member might achieve, in general, eBay auctions will bring pretty near top dollar for items if correctly listed, described, and depicted. I also use eSnipe as a tool and have, on occasion, had bids entered over others that bid subsequent to my bid entry to the eSnipe server.
Others may do as they see fit; it is an open market and should be. I won't harbor ill feelings if others use different policies. I do, however, reserve the right to alter my practices accordingly.
I've got a hundred (or so) for the Herse Timeshare Coalition....
Charles T. Young
"ctycycle" on eBay
Honeybrook. PA
> I was somewhat disturbed by the thought of contraverting the auction
process
> to keep prices lower as this likely contravenes Ebay regulations. The
other
> idea to buy as a group and pass a bike around seems much fairer and
> interesting for me. I guess you could call it bicycle time-sharing. It is
> done with classic cars already, where you join a club and are permitted
the
> use of a certain number of car/days per year. Some cars have a higher
> car/day value than others.
>
> Interesting concept,
>
> Steven Maasland
> Moorestown, NJ
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Tom Sanders <tsan7759142@attbi.com>
> To: <classicrendezvous@bikelist.org>
> Sent: Thursday, September 12, 2002 5:01 PM
> Subject: [CR]re: cooperative buying strategy
>
>
> Would this be fair to the seller? What if the seller were a list member
or
> more than one list member honestly wanted the same thing? All these are
> highly likely situations. I do like that list members call attention to
> interesting items.
> Tom Sanders
> Lansing, Mi
>
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