[CR]Re: Using the CR database to avoid competitive bidding

(Example: Framebuilding:Restoration)

From: <"sirkevinwulf@ozemail.com.au">
To: classicrendezvous@bikelist.org
Date: Mon, 25 Feb 2008 07:20:26 +0900
Subject: [CR]Re: Using the CR database to avoid competitive bidding

The next Cirque auction would be fun - first bid wins! :)

Jeff Wybrow Melbourne, AUS


>>>John Betamis wrote that we should organize and all agree to not
>>>competitively bid against other bidders who are on this list. Speaking of
>>>eBay "ethics", The US Department of Justice has a name for this:
>>>Collusion
>>>in restraint of free trade, and it is a felony.
>>
>> Not at all. It's just exercising common courtesy, like letting someone in
>> ahead of you in traffic instead of trying to beat them. If the item up f or
>> auction is something that comes up fairly often, why fight over it and
>> drive up the price for that one sale? Of course, if it's some rare piece
>> that only comes up once in a blue moon, it's every man for himself.
>>
>> John Betmanis
>> Woodstock, Ontario
>> Canada