[sdiy] ebay internal shill bidding? bidsnipe vs Human

[Paul Cunningham]

seemed relevant to me considering that the first part of diy often begins with buying something old/broken from ebay. the started with a warning about buying synths on ebay, and others with similar experience in selling/buying synths responded... where else would you get such a tailored and domain informed response from technically intelligent people? I've tried to reply to some posts off-list but it seems relevant to me. -pc

On Jan 7, 2011, at 11:02 AM, Dave Manley <dlmanley at sonic.net> wrote:

> On 1/7/2011 3:48 AM, Julian wrote:
> 
>> The whole ebay bidding thing - ive held off till now, as ebay is quite boring to me ; )
> 
> OMFG is this thread still alive some, what 30, 40, posts later?
> 
> Yes, ebay is boring and off topic.
> 
> Here's what we should do:  Bob should get together with CC and with his mad
> maths skills the two of them can put together a statistical analysis to prove
> that internal shill bidding has robbed Bob of his livelihood.  Then they can
> go to some other forum and present their conclusions there.  But buy some of
> these first and do some diy:
> 
>     http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=270688146864
> 
> -Dave
> 
> Ferguson's Three Rules of Email:
> 1. Does this really need to be said?
> 2. Does this really need to be said now?
> 3. Does this really need to be said now by me?
> 4. Does this really need to be said now by me in this forum?
> 
> (I added number 4, and am probably breaking it right now.)
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