Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2000/03/13
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]I LOVE being alerted to items posted for sale. If they're too expensive, I don't bid. In several hobby areas, not just Leica cameras, I've learned more about particular items from eBay listings and photographs than dozens of trade shows combined! The Internet--eBay included--is about shared information as well as the widespread dissemination of news. If it weren't, we wouldn't be meeting here on this listserve! Jim Shulman - ----- Original Message ----- From: Javier <japho@cunyvm.cuny.edu> To: <rollei@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us>; <acg@kjsl.com>; <leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us>; <zicg@coollist.com>; <pugw@onelist.com>; <pentacon@coollist.com> Sent: Monday, March 13, 2000 4:41 PM Subject: [Leica] OT:A note about third party ebay notifications > Hi Everyone > > I'm posting this across several lists > > I've noticed that several members on different lists have been alerting the > list users about related items on Ebay. I realize that those doing > this are acting out of a genuine desire to be helpful to fellow listers. > But in reality, most all listers are perfectly capable of finding those items > without help. Furthermore this practice expands the bidder pool > and drives up prices. This is not fair to those who took the time to > conduct a search for the item in question. In fact the only one who > benefits from this is the seller. Furthermore, people who act on a tip > are more likely to bid impulsively ,often driving prices out of the > bounds of reality. This is bad for all of us, even those in the high-bucks > equipment groups. I hope no one takes offense at this. It;s well intentioned. > I too posted a few of these -Hey look at what I found at Ebay- ads. > until I realized that I was only doing free advertising for someone > else and worse yet was helping to drive up prices. I'de like to suggest that It > might be a good idea if we all agreed not to post references or links to Ebay > items until the auction has ended, unless it's our own item in which case it would > be a FS: ad posted according to the list rules. > Javier > >