Deadlord36 wrote:Christ, guys, can't you be happy that he won it............
beyondthebreach wrote:bclarkie wrote:Damn it, that thing sat out there without a bid for almost 12 hours. How long did it take to negotiate that one. Nice Win though Lest ye think ill of me . . . No negotiating . . . I kept staring at it thinking do I want to even send a "question" to the seller (which I never do). So, after a few minutes I simply placed a bid of $125 (again, I usually never place bids early).I click "place bid" and ebay says my bid is "at or above the Buy it Now price.What? I went back and checked out the description . . . it was edited and a BIN added while I was looking at it. If I had bid 1 penny less, the bid would have registered and I would have never realized it!Nice!
bclarkie wrote:Damn it, that thing sat out there without a bid for almost 12 hours. How long did it take to negotiate that one. Nice Win though
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AdderMcOne wrote:Absolutely fantastic win BTB. Supremely lucky with the timing of your bid. Unfortunate there Brette. Here's hoping for another chance at a good one for you next time.....
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beasterbrook wrote:what can I say... on another totally unrelated subject can anyone point me were you can hire assasins on the net??AdderMcOne wrote:Absolutely fantastic win BTB. Supremely lucky with the timing of your bid. Unfortunate there Brette. Here's hoping for another chance at a good one for you next time.....
Ralf Toth wrote:beasterbrook wrote:what can I say... on another totally unrelated subject can anyone point me were you can hire assasins on the net??Personally, I wouldn't be too proud about talking anyone into selling a collector's item worth $750+ for $125. I'd be happy to BIN it or win it if it went as a normal auction without getting noticed by others who had the chance to find it. But talking an unknowing seller into this kind of deal seems greedy to me. Yes, the seller should have done some basic research. But as he obviously didn't, does that give anyone the right to rip him off the way he actually got ripped off? Yes, we live in a bad world, I know. Doesn't that fact oblige us to follow some simple ethical guidelines in collecting? How morally correct is the question "Is there a BIN for this item?" anyway?I know many of you will disagree with me. I'm ready to get flamed for this, but I don't care. If I am not the only one who thinks this way, it would be nice to see some basic discussion about this issue.
beasterbrook wrote:what can I say... on another totally unrelated subject can anyone point me were you can hire assasins on the net??
Ralf Toth wrote:Personally, I wouldn't be too proud about talking anyone into selling a collector's item worth $750+ for $125.<snip>I know many of you will disagree with me. I'm ready to get flamed for this, but I don't care. If I am not the only one who thinks this way, it would be nice to see some basic discussion about this issue.
bclarkie wrote:What is the difference if the seller already has one [BIN] on the auction immediately or if he/she puts one on there later on with you asking without any prompting to the amount.
Yama-Arashi wrote:bclarkie wrote:What is the difference if the seller already has one [BIN] on the auction immediately or if he/she puts one on there later on with you asking without any prompting to the amount. All the difference in the world. There was no BIN before you took a positive action to induce one. If you take a positive action to induce another to act in a fashion that works to their detriment, then yes, you are culpable for the outcome of that action.
bclarkie wrote:Additionally, I dont think that you claim moral high ground in one instance and not the other. Fact is if you are in a store and find this same item for the same amount, fulling knowing its true worth, than you are bound by the same moral grounds to tell the store owner of its true worth, you can't have it both ways.
Yama-Arashi wrote:bclarkie wrote:Additionally, I dont think that you claim moral high ground in one instance and not the other. Fact is if you are in a store and find this same item for the same amount, fulling knowing its true worth, than you are bound by the same moral grounds to tell the store owner of its true worth, you can't have it both ways. Second. Read my post with attention, please. The issue revolves around the concept of the responsibility of taking positive action. When you take positive action to bring about a result, especially one that harms another, you are in the realm of moral culpability. If you come upon a fixd-price deal entirely by chance (as the purchaser did, in the instance at hand) no moral culpability attaches. When someone is offering something for sale, they set a price they are willing to accept. If they get the price wrong, they lose out, either through lost profit (price too low) or lost sales (price too high). If buyer disagrees on price, and seller is amenable to discussion, price negotiations can ensue. This is called "doing business," and yes, I'm quite familiar with the concept, thank you.