Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1999/08/18

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Subject: Re: [Leica] Leica 80-200 Rom on Ebay at $685.50, no Reserve
From: "Bryan Caldwell" <bcaldwell@softcom.net>
Date: Wed, 18 Aug 1999 19:42:59 -0700

>>I do not consider buying things sold here other than Fridays. I delete
them
immediately without looking out them.<<

And, of course, this way you don't know what you're missing.


Bryan

- ----- Original Message -----
From: Mark Rabiner <mrabiner@concentric.net>
To: <leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us>
Sent: Wednesday, August 18, 1999 6:41 PM
Subject: Re: [Leica] Leica 80-200 Rom on Ebay at $685.50, no Reserve


> "Robert G. Stevens" wrote:
> >
> > Ebay means the auction might be over by the time the Lug members are
> > informed about it on Friday and the get a chance to look it up.  It is
also
> > a hell of a deal.
> >
> > Regards,
> >
> > Robert
> >
> > At 05:19 PM 8/18/99 -0700, you wrote:
> > >"Robert G. Stevens" wrote:
> > >>
> > >> I know its not Friday, but I have a lens listed on Ebay.  There is no
> > >> reserve.  Click on the other auctions by seller link to see some
other
> > >> stuff up on Ebay by me.
> ><snip>
> > >> Robert
> > >
> > >No but this is Wednesday so this must be Belgium. What might the magic
words
> > >"Ebay" have to do with anything?
> > >Does it make Wednesday into Thursday? Or are not not in Belgium?
> > >Mark Rabiner
>
> OF course so! If when people post their Ebay things they inform us that
would
> fill our little list with commerce wouldn't it? And that's not what we
> apparently want is it? Why would an Ebay listing make it more appropriate
to
> sell stuff on the LUG on other days that Fridays?
> I know. It does not say it anywhere in stone that sale day is only
Fridays. But
> so far that is the way the list has worked and everyone has pretty much
> respected that.
> I think it's fine for Ebay to take over the commerce of the world but I
don't
> see why it needs to take over the workings of this list.
> If you are so very concerned that your pals here on the LUG not get a fair
> warning on your Ebay listings then do your Ebay listings on Friday.
> That's my opinion.
> I do not consider buying things sold here other than Fridays. I delete
them
> immediately without looking out them.
> Mark Rabiner
>