Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2000/01/09

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Subject: Re: [Leica] Re: Why I love Ebay
From: D Khong <dkhong@pacific.net.sg>
Date: Mon, 10 Jan 2000 06:10:34 +0000

>"R. Saylor" wrote:
>> 
>> Bidding on Brian Bower's _Leica M Photography_ at ebay is now
>> over $30.
>> 
>> I paid less than $20 for a new one a few months ago.
>> 
>> Richard
>
>Yeah.  Common feature of eBay auctions.  People pay more for a used book
>with broken dust jacket, than they would for a new copy of the same thing
>from Amazon, Border, or Barnes & Noble.
>
>eBay is an interesting phenomena: I'm not sure what it says about the
>psychology/sociology of the human race, though... ;)
>
>M.
>
>-- 
>Martin Howard                     

If you followed ebay close enough, you'd see that there are suckers,
obsessive-compulsive bidders and those who gotten "bargains". Only the last
bunch brag about their good fortune on ebay.

Dan K.
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