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Re: 8480 Technic Shuttles
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Sun, 2 Apr 2000 22:16:43 GMT
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"Tom Stangl, VFAQman" wrote:
> Rob Doucette wrote:
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> > > In lugnet.admin.general, Todd Lehman writes:
> > > > Sealed bid auctions belong in .auction, and OBO sales belong in .b-s-t.
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> > My interpretation of this is:
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> > an OBO sale is similar to a sealed bid auction EXCEPT a minimum price is set
> > in an OBO sale. The absense of a minimum price makes an OBO sale
> > automatically an auction. Sound reasonable?
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> Not really. Auctions have a Starting Bid, which can easily be set high enough
> to be a Minimum Price.
I agree with Tom that OBO without a minimum and OBO with a minimum aren't
different; however, I still think they're both fundamentally different from
auctions in the eBay-esque sense. But they're also fundamentally different than
straight sales, hence this entire conversation.
I guess I group them with sales now because I primarily sell--were I primarily
buying, I might mentally group them in with .auction sales. I also grouped them
the latter way when I was selling single items; when I started having multiple
units of a given type, it just seemed more like a sale to me. If I'd had only one
shuttle to sell, I would have made it a plain old (probaby eBay) auction--but I
had six, so it seemed different, but it's closest to a blind Dutch auction, if
such a beast exists.
In any case, I don't want to see a lugnet.market.obo group spring up--best to
decide their belonging in one group or the other. Since the .auction folks don't
complain when sales appear (do they ever?) in their group, and the .b-s-t regulars
often find auction announcements objectionable, I'd think administratively that it
would be best to put OBOs in .auction--the path of least resistance--and to post
some kind of announcement to that effect or add it to the overview. (Perhaps a
handy acronym akin to "FA:" or "FS:" like "SBA:" would help differentiate them?
I'm not sure one has been codified.)
> > For the record, Lindsay's posting (post #1 in this thread, although not the
> > start) DID list a minimum asking price.
BTW, I wasn't really fulminating at you, Rob--I was just consterned at this being
raised again (and maybe feeling singled out), when I thought that definitive
policy had been articulated, for better or for worse. I was very much in sync
with Larry's understanding that OBO goes in b-s-t, not by consensus opinion (or
even his own) but by LUGNET policy. It appears I was mistaken! I figured
defensiveness was the better part of valour, sorry if it sounded like
overreaction. No personal offence was taken. :)
Next time, I'll just go to eBay on the first go-round. At least there's no debate
over where *those* announcements go. ;)
best
Lindsay
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| (...) No, you've got it right -- OBOs do belong in .buy-sell-trade. Considering the best offer among multiple offers is a completely natural part of putting something up for sale or possible sale. SBAs belong in .auction. The two are similar in (...) (25 years ago, 2-Apr-00, to lugnet.admin.general) !
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| (...) Not really. Auctions have a Starting Bid, which can easily be set high enough to be a Minimum Price. (...) -- Tom Stangl ***(URL) Visual FAQ home ***(URL) Bay Area DSMs (25 years ago, 2-Apr-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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