From: Dan Maguire (dmaguire@mchsi.com)
Date: Sat Nov 20 2004 - 17:11:32 PST
Hi Mike,
So what you are saying is that in addition to groups of people
organizing themselves to alternately win auctions at less than the true
market price for longterm personal gain, that members of such groups
sometimes breach that trust and bid behind each other's backs anyway?
The first might be a violation of state and federal antitrust laws but
the second is just plain mean!
Dan
Michael S. Nichols wrote:
> Hello from Atlanta, Ga 30306. Ebay bidders having an arrangement? Wait
> a minute, are these bidders high rollers who plan to fix interstate
> shipping rates, or Bill Gates of Microsoft fighting Linux, or what? I
> cannot imagine folks agreeing to "pass" at an auction because Bubba
> wants the item up for bid, and he does not want to pay market bid price
> plus for it.... We are not talking the Hope diamond here, because those
> folks are using Sotheby's and not Ebay! If two folks are after a
> lawnmower---wait, a USMC lawnmower (required MV content)--- and they
> talk first about who wants it more, so be it.
> I would love to see folks agree to not bid so Bubba could get a
> deal...there is no honor among theives, but these folks are not theives,
> just people trying (pretending?) to work things out. However if one of
> them is crazy and rich, and the other one wants the item and does not
> want to pay too much, do you really think the crazy and rich bidder will
> sit on his hands and do nothing? Hmmmmm...
>
> Regards,
>
> Mike Nichols
> Member GA MVPA
>
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