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Subject: 
Re: FS-Pirate & Town Sets Mint In Sealed Boxes/Pack
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lugnet.market.buy-sell-trade
Date: 
Tue, 28 Nov 2000 17:46:24 GMT
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In lugnet.market.buy-sell-trade, Eric Joslin writes:
> 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.

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 been accepted.

That's OK, and I don't have a problem with it - except that it is (in my
mind) *clearly* not a sale, or a trade.

YMMV
James



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  Re: FS-Pirate & Town Sets Mint In Sealed Boxes/Pack
 
(...) 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, (...) (26 years ago, 28-Nov-00, to lugnet.market.buy-sell-trade)

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