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Subject:	Re: FS-Pirate & Town Sets Mint In Sealed Boxes/Pack
Newsgroups:	lugnet.market.buy-sell-trade
Date:	Tue, 28 Nov 2000 17:27:05 GMT
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In lugnet.market.buy-sell-trade, Larry Pieniazek writes: > I agree with you, but we're in the minority. Todd has decided that OBO (or > best offer) sales (sealed bid auctions) are not auctions in the meaning that > the ToS uses and therefore are allowed here. Stop press! I agree with you as well. OBOs, in my experience, often turn into the seller emailing me back and saying that someone has made an offer of $X, would I care to offer more? They also have the potential for other auction-ish abuses, such as the seller not selling to *anyone* if they don't submit an offer over a certain level, and trying again later, like the reserve price on eBay. I'd find buy-sell-trade a lot more useful if the only thing allowed were straight sales; that is, the seller offering something for a set price, first come, first served. eric

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		Re: FS-Pirate & Town Sets Mint In Sealed Boxes/Pack
(...) Ditto. And without meaning to be a jerk, the post that prompted this is an example. He's offered this same collection of sets multiple times (here & on the Brickbay forum), and has had at least one offer (public reply on Brickbay) that hasn't (...) (24 years ago, 28-Nov-00, to lugnet.market.buy-sell-trade)

		Re: FS-Pirate & Town Sets Mint In Sealed Boxes/Pack
(...) Eeek! Then they're running an auction! (...) I wouldn't call it an "auction-ish" abuse; isn't it simply a human-nature-ish abuse of human-nature that happens to appear naturally in, among many other places, the dynamics of OBO sales as well as (...) (24 years ago, 29-Nov-00, to lugnet.market.buy-sell-trade, lugnet.market.auction, lugnet.admin.nntp)

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		Re: FS-Pirate & Town Sets Mint In Sealed Boxes/Pack
(...) I agree with you, but we're in the minority. Todd has decided that OBO (or best offer) sales (sealed bid auctions) are not auctions in the meaning that the ToS uses and therefore are allowed here. There are a lot of posts discussing this in (...) (24 years ago, 28-Nov-00, to lugnet.market.buy-sell-trade)

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