Re: eBay auction

[Warren Ernst <wernst@gmail.com>]

On Jan 12, 12:25 pm, Gregory Weston <u...@splook.com> wrote:
> In article <L37ij.6366$pr6.3...@nlpi070.nbdc.sbc.com>,
>  Mike Spurgeon <m...@spurgeon.net> wrote:
>
> > Gregory Weston wrote:
>
> > > Assuming you're not the seller or a shill:
>
> > It matters not.  The winning bidder will meet them on pickup.
>
> > > I think the fact that the seller requires local pickup is a fairly large
> > > disincentive.
>
> > For you.  Not those in Kansas or nearby.  He's got 4 bids, all low.  It
> > will be fun to watch.
>
> The person to whom I was responding made a broad suggestion to the group
> that "we" should go in on it together. I was simply pointing out that
> for a large percentage of "we" the local pickup issue was significant.
>
> > > (For that matter, even if shipping was an option it'd
> > > likely dwarf the cost of the auction or the value of the merchandise.)
>
> > Then you don't have a proper appreciation for the value of the merchandise.
>
> I'm not really up today for a debate over the distinction between how
> much something is objectively worth compared to the price that two
> people might be able to hammer out between themselves at any given point
> in time (which is very much subjective).

And BTW, it isn't that it isn't a lot of stuff. It just isn't a lot of
*rare* stuff.

Heck, I think the rarest stuff would be the //e color composite
monitors, and they're the things that are least likely to survive
shipping well...

-Warr