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(...) This isn't "your" thread, you know. (...) Why? You've obviously got a lot of bidders interested in yours, otherwise the price wouldn't be so high. It sounds like you don't want competition. In general, buyers do want competition among sellers. (...) (26 years ago, 5-Mar-99, to lugnet.market.auction)
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Mike Stanley wrote in message ... (...) Not in the literal sense of the word no, but I was the originator and the sole contributor for a considerable time. Let's just say I adopted it. (...) Of course I don't, show me a seller who does! You'll be (...) (26 years ago, 5-Mar-99, to lugnet.market.auction, lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) Well, in a free market your wants as a seller are somewhat secondary to the wants of the much larger group of buyers you want to do business with, aren't they? (...) I often like to flatter myself, thanks. And while I wouldn't presume to say I (...) (26 years ago, 5-Mar-99, to lugnet.market.auction, lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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Mike Stanley wrote in message ... (...) Quite the opposite actually - when there are more buyers than sellers, you have a sellers market. Sellers have the upper hand. Its a fairly elementary concept. (...) speak (...) people". (...) To quote one of (...) (26 years ago, 6-Mar-99, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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MAIN PURPOSE OF THIS POST: END THIS THREAD! I read several groups each morning, looking for things to buy, thus I have lugnet.market.auction on my newsgroups to read list. No off-topic.debate. I don't have time to read debates, and normally don't (...) (26 years ago, 6-Mar-99, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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John DiRienzo wrote: <snip> John, I agree with most of what you say. A few points though. I was pretty careful to set my followups each time and I don't respond to this thread over there. But I do think it's useful to discuss mores and manners. No (...) (26 years ago, 6-Mar-99, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) I'd say if you have multiple sellers competing to the point that lower prices are offered that annoy you then you don't quite HAVE that seller's market. If you as a seller want $1,000 for your set that normally fetches $200 it doesn't matter (...) (26 years ago, 6-Mar-99, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) Exactly the point I was making. I'm glad you agree at last. (26 years ago, 6-Mar-99, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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John DiRienzo wrote in message ... (...) {snip} (...) Funny way to end a thread? (...) The name is Steve actually, but formalities aside, yes I do see it as a sellers market. (...) much out (...) YOUR definition here BTW, not mine, and a cynical one (...) (26 years ago, 6-Mar-99, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) Not agreeing at all. You tried to construct this straw man to justify your "ownership" of a thread and your reaction to someone else posting to it in what you viewed as competition with your auction. You don't own the thread. The toyshop owner (...) (26 years ago, 7-Mar-99, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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Mike Stanley wrote in message ... (...) I think you've hit the nail on the head. I'm getting bored with the bickering, and I figure others must be as well. I'll continue to post to the other part of this thread re standard auctions turning into (...) (26 years ago, 7-Mar-99, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) Look, buddy, there is a real difference between saying: "You are acting cluelessly" to someone who has most probably earned it fair and square, and calling someone who has _NOT_ earned it a parasite. To even suggest that "parasite" and (...) (26 years ago, 8-Mar-99, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) Actually, Mike, if you're the _only_ one offering that set at that time, the random guy willing to pay $1k _might_ not be a moron. Just like people willing to pay 2-3 times retail for SW sets _now_ aren't necessarily morons, just very, very (...) (26 years ago, 8-Mar-99, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) Yeah, but sometimes it is more fun to watch someone else do it for me. :) Especially when I'm right. (26 years ago, 9-Mar-99, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) While I suppose there are people to whom $800 is so insignificant that it isn't worth waiting for another to come along, I don't know any of them. I can't imagine even Larry doing that, primarily because it has been my experience that foolish (...) (26 years ago, 9-Mar-99, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) Probably not. (...) I agree completely. (26 years ago, 9-Mar-99, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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In some cases, I'm pretending that you addressed me instead of Mike, so if it looks like I'm answering for him, that's not my intent. (...) I guess you have the 'right' to feel some kind of artificial ownership, but you're likely to be hurt (...) (26 years ago, 9-Mar-99, to lugnet.market.auction, lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) What's the difference? The parasite earned it...and what's so bad about being a parasite? Buel commonly earns it...and could he say anything and not rile Mike? I agree with Steve on this one. Mike is plenty derogatory when he gets going, and (...) (26 years ago, 9-Mar-99, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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Mike Stanley wrote in message ... (...) THUD....Sound of me fainting :) (26 years ago, 10-Mar-99, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) I know I'm not perfect. In fact, I'm well aware of how unperfect I am in many ways. My personal dislike for Buel and his past "business practices" taint anything I might comment on with regards to him. I realize this is obvious to some, and I (...) (26 years ago, 10-Mar-99, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) Have you heard about this guy William H Gates the third? He throws away $800 _million_ because he can't wait till someone else launches a few satellites. Jasper "tongue-in-cheek"Janssen (26 years ago, 11-Mar-99, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) Well, Billy doesn't really exist in the same world as the rest of us. Hell, if he does what he's said he'll do with his money and gives 95% of it away to science and charity he'd still have more than any sane person could spend in a few (...) (26 years ago, 11-Mar-99, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) Auctions and threads do not generally have a one-to-one correspondence. Sometimes they do, but when they do, try to keep in mind that you are conducting an auction using an NNTP newsgroup system -- a text-based medium designed and optimized (...) (26 years ago, 14-Mar-99, to lugnet.market.auction, lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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