eBay vrs42?

[Tom Jennings]

On Fri, 11 Feb 2005, Jay West wrote:

> To which Eric replied...
>> But if two bidders choose to cooperate rather than getting in a bidding
>> war, how is that unethical?

I agree too; but I fail to see why 'preventing a bidding war' is
in the seller's interest! As an occasional seller, I LOVE! bidding
wars!

> I am also curious who the new regular bidder on ebay is on anything HP 
> related... "quiet_peter". Don't recall running into him before but he's 
> buying up everything. I'm not complaining at all, just curious because he 
> appeared suddenly and with high activity.

I don't know, but maybe they saw that Christie's auction and...
came to a linear and incorrect assumption about value.