eBay vrs42?

[Jim Battle]

Doc Shipley wrote:

> 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.
> 
> 
> <snip>
> 
>> 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, 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.