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Location: CT | Here's the official OFC eBay etiquette. If you see me trying to scoop up a nice no reserve O for a dollar, don't bid on it. That way I can have a lot of nice guitars for a dollar. That's fair, right? |
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Location: Latitude 39.56819, Longitude -105.080066 | Sorry...etiquette would require me to bid $1.01 to drive up the price :D |
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Location: CT | Then I would hunt you down and spank you like a naughty child! |
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Location: SoCal | Stephen might like that ?? |
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Location: Latitude 39.56819, Longitude -105.080066 | :D
Thank you, may I have another! |
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Location: gods country..west virginia | :eek: walks out fast!! |
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Location: Illinois | Originally posted by Mitzdawg:
Nice discussion, and thanks to all who contributed. Can I suggest a gentleman's agreeement that everyone might be comfortable with?
1) If you really want the item to satisfy some deep seated GAS, go for it no matter who you are bidding against.
2) If you are considering something that would be a "nice-to-have" and you recognize another OFC'er is bidding, back off and let them have it.
Or is there no agreement at all and the devil take the hindmost? Sure.. :rolleyes: Go with that... :rolleyes:
"To the victor goes the spoils"
If you're bidding on something you REALLY REALLY want, then "Mum's" the word. Tell us about what you bought. Don't ask us what we think about what you're bidding on. We might just start to GAS about it too. |
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Location: Illinois | Originally posted by jyam4:
I haven't posting for awhile, and I wouldn't want to offend, however...
To me, OFC members (or any public forum) agreeing on who bids, how much, etc. underminds the auction, and can rob the seller from the highest bid possible. I have also seen something else that's disturbing. It seems that some members just bid on anything Ovation just to push up the prices (could this be my imagination?). This would keep others from getting great deals (and possibly increase the value of your collections?). I could be wrong about this happening, but it sure seems like it sometimes.
Joe You hit that nail squarly on the head Jyam4.
Re: the Hunt Brothers ran up the price of silver by witholding the silver from the market, keeping the price artificially high by keeping the supply artificially low. -- So much for a 'free market'.--
For anyone to ask you to withold your bid, keeps the price artificially low by keeping the demand artificially low. Either one is rude at best. Dishonest at worst and possibly illegal. And I might add, puts this very forum's existence in jeopardy.
Asking me or anyone else to let you have something at the price you want at the expense of me not having it at what I feel is a fair price is childish and rude.
Witholding your 'friendship', i.e. 'gentleman's agreement', based on getting what you want is sophomoric and little-girls-in-the-school-yard like :p . Grow up and let the market work, or get out of it.
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Location: Upper Left USA | It is an open market.
It isn't personal.
I rarely have enouugh money to upset anyone.
MrGolf007 and myself spent a month or two competing over cheap Preacher cases.
His right arm is in a sling now and we are settled...
...only in America! |
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