Yeah, like whatever goes on after the auction ends without a sale is any of
ebays business. There are ways around what they're trying to do and it's
only going to make people mad and more creative.
John Hermanson
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Chris O'Neill" <coneill@xxxxxxxxxxx>
To: "John Hermanson" <omtech@xxxxxxxxx>; <olympus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Thursday, February 22, 2001 9:27 AM
Subject: Re: [OM] OT ebay
| On 22 Feb 2001, at 8:34, John Hermanson wrote:
|
| > They're trying to end the awful practice of the seller completing a
| > transaction with a high bidder when the reserve price isn't reached.
|
| Not that *I* have ever done that, but how is e-Bay going to prevent
| that??? If I wanted to, I could look-up the buyer's e-mail address and
| then send them an e-mail using my client. Or, do you mean that
| everyone will have a username@xxxxxxxxx address? If so, it doesn't
| matter... I'd just use that address to send a "contact me at
| coneill@nucleus please" message.
|
| Regards,
|
| Chris
|
| P.S. I predict that what e-Bay will eventually do is up their listing fee
| and drop the final value fee. That'd get them more money without having
| to worry 'bout who's "cheating" on the "reserve not met" auctions.
|
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