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I dunno Garnet...maybe I am just a little raw around the edges. I just think taking the time out to note "interesting behavior" on eBay and then highlighting an item Camarojoe won and then relisted (at an appropriate markup) as an example, and adding the comment "I love the buy it now of $150" with an exclaimation point and a question mark seems to infer a bit of ridicule. [img]/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/dunno.gif[/img] Maybe I'm reading too much into simple punctuation, but it seems odd that you would have taken time out of your day to draw attention to something you apparently don't have a problem with. How would you feel if you were selling a company to another for your job, and I (an outsider with no business in the deal at all) went to an investor's website and posted my thoughts on your "interesting behavior" noting that you are attempting to sell a company for more than you payed, with a comment like "I especially like his asking price!?!" You're right about the bashing around here, it doesn't take long for people to form opinions of others they've never even met, just by reading a bunch of ranting on the 'net, which is why I don't like seeing my brother's name and eBay practices brought under scrutiny at the sYc when he's never done any harm to the supercar community, unless some of you consider his severe addiction to supercar memorabilia collecting doing harm. But as far having a problem with the strong prices on eBay, I'd have to say that your practice of linking eBay auctions (that you apparently have no intentions of bidding on) to the sYc site certainly has an effect on the end price, by only adding to the attention and traffic of a particular item. I'm sure Charley wished there wouldn't have been so much attention to that auction for the Berger plate frames you linked here, as well as Camarojoe, the bidder who ultimately payed the inflated price for such an attractive item. How would you feel if I searched the items you were bidding on and posted a link to them here, with my opinions on the prices good or bad? No hard feelings Garnet, everyone is certainly entitled to their opinion, lets just not use eBay prices of buyers or sellers as another way to make "good guys" and "bad guys" out on this board. (long live the private auction) Let the eBayers find their treasures themselves, and make their own decisions as to what they should be worth. Just my opinion... [img]/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/beers.gif[/img]

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Guess my elementary school grammar teacher had it right when she said "punctuation is the most important part of writing."

Fair 'nuff. [img]/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/beers.gif[/img]

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Supercarkid;
Well said!

KLONECO;
Did you reply to your own post back there! I think I'm actually following you on this one!

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Guys one thing that I didn't mention is when people use keywords like Nickey, Yenko, COPO, etc in an ebay auction is not all that bad IMO. By using search words like that all the seller is doing is trying to call out to a certain group of buyers. People who like these cars will search under these words and hope to find somthing in that category. As long as the seller is not saying somthing like "this type part was used as factory equiptment in lets say a Yenko Camaro" and it really didn't. That is when I have a problem with it.

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Guys are abusing the key word idea big time. Check all the Yenko, COPO, Z28, Crossram, JL8, Baldwin, Nickey, Berger, DZ, L72, LS6, SS, Hurst listings and you'll find stupid stuff like shifter balls that are aftermarket. Heck, just put the word "tuner" or "Acura" in your auction and you'll have a ton of kids bidding on the part to put on their imports!

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Marlin, I thought I could save you some typing [img]/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/dunno.gif[/img]

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KLONECO,
Your keypad must be SMOKEN!! [img]/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/burnout.gif[/img] [img]/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/burnout.gif[/img]

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I still think Camaroejoe should just let me have the plate for free and we can stop all this bickering !!!

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Ebay shows this license plate sold for $127.50.