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From: "Jim Battle" <frustum at pacbell.net>
> Doc Shipley wrote:
> >   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, this isn't an example at all.  If Al Kossow knew you were going to
> bid and asked you not to, that would be an example.

Exactly.

FWIW, I've done the same thing as Doc.  But that's a freely made choice of
an individual, not an attempt to get together and manipulate prices.

    Vince