Some musings regarding eBay...

[Supercar_Kid]

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]