[ForSale-Swap] A Thought

[J. Forster]

As I said before, it takes TWO bidders to run something up, save on BINs.

Some years ago, I stopped at a local yard sale mid morning. I saw a very
clean Tektronix TM 500 with three much sought after calibration plugins. I
would happily have paid many, many hundreds. I asked the guy what he
wanted for it and he said $10. I paid it instantly. He probably would have
taken $5 and thought me a fool for paying $10. I sold one of the plugins
within a couple of hours for over $1000.

Morals: One mans junk is another man's treasure. Knowlege is power.

-John

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> There is such a thing called " Bid Rigging " It is Illegal if it
> can be proven, and it does happen everyday. The e-Fray experience
> can be a frustrating one. And yes the e-Fray market is grossly
> exxagerated. What someone in a large metropolitan city would pay
> for an item, someone in a small rural town would choke at the
> price. What my local market will support in prices dosen't come
> close to the inflated prices on the auction site, which could
> very likely be artificially bid up anyway. Anyone can create
> multiple accounts, and use them to bid up items to keep from
> having to sell them for what they would truly bring at auction.
>