[njsteve]

Private auctions make me nervous. It usually means there is some shill bidding going on to raise the price. But then again I have been contacted during past auctions by another person's previous disgruntled buyer/seller to tell me how bad they were treated by that particular buyer/seller. They should have an eBay support group for those disgruntled people. I have had pretty good luck in the past, only one bozo in 4 years who bid up a storm on an old chopper bike I had and then never paid.