Re: How redicoulous can Ebay Get?

[wild_dj@mit.edu (Jake Wildstrom)]

In article <7ktp5l$q6r$1@nnrp9.crl.com>, Joe Kohn  <joko@nospam.crl.com> wrote:
>TEXAS II - AppleWorks <a2mg@aol.comNomail> wrote:
>
> >No, you'd probably use a Dutch auction, where you put up 100 or
> >so of the product and take multiple bids. Everyone who bid would
> >pay the same unless it exceeded the quantity. I'm not sure if the
> >rules for dutch auctions would allow "new" software  or not.
> 
>I've never spent more than a few minutes looking at the auction sites, but
>considering that I have 100 or more copies of both Neuromancer and Dragon
>Wars for the IIe/IIc, still in their shrink-wrapped boxes, and multiple
>posts on csa2.marketplace offering them for next-to-nothing has resulted
>in zero sales, I'm off to check out what a Dutch auction is, as I've never
>heard the term before. 

Actually, as a word of warning, a "Dutch auction" isn't remotely what eBay et
al think it is, and I have no idea how they came to associate the term with
what they have now. A traditional Dutch auction is one in which an item starts
at the maximum price it could be expected to sell for (e.g. a list price), and
is then is devalued slowly until someone bids; the first bidder then gets the
item. Sort of the opposite of a regular auction, where it starts low and the
last bidder gets the item.

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