eBay vrs42?

[Doc Shipley]

Eric Smith wrote:
> Jim wrote:
> 
>>Maybe I'm old fashioned, but isn't this as ethically lacking as shill
>>bidding?
> 
> 
> Shill bidding is the seller (or one of the seller's associates) putting
> in fraudulent bids to jack up the price, with no intent of actually
> transacting a sale if the shill bid wins.  I think everyone can see
> why this is unethical.

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> I don't think so in either case, so I don't think it is unethical
> on eBay either.

   I agree with Eric, and have a real example relative to this list.

   There have been a couple of storage adapters on eBay last year that I 
might have bid on - one that I'd have bid high for sure - except that Al 
Kossow was already bidding.

   That's not altruistic, or even "for the good of the group", either. 
I figure that in the long run, I myself will get more benefit from X 
piece of hardware if Al is running it.


	Doc