I will add my $0.02 as well. Skip, you were just verbalizing what many of us
do on a regular basis. In fact, my problems with eBay resulted from tracking
bidder patterns on eBay after the auctions finished.
Gregg
From: Doggre@xxxxxxx
>In a message dated 3/31/01 5:42:07 AM Pacific Standard Time,
>tscales@xxxxxxxxxxxxx writes:
>
>>snip<
>> Let it roll off your back. We don't want to lose such a valuable
>> contributor to the list.
>>snip<
>
>Well said, Tom. I wasn't going to comment on-list (I just wrote Skip
>off-list with the same encouragement), but sitting here (before coffee)
>thinking about it, I think a point was missed earlier, which may have helped
>to set off the rant(s). And that is, several people ARE "tracking"
>purchases, not of individuals per se, but just price trends in general. And
>that information (Skip Williams site, Chris O'Neill's work, and even your
>occaisional helpful posts, Tom, to someone looking to buy something) provides
>an invaluable database for making bid/offer/purchase decisions. It seems
>obvious to me, at least, that all this price tracking is being done in a
>spirit of philanthropy.
>
>Stay Skip. Or at least make it a brief sabbatical. I use your site almost
>every day! (http://www.skipwilliams.com/index.html)
>
>Rich
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