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In lugnet.market.buy-sell-trade, Eric Joslin writes:
> 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?
Eeek! Then they're running an auction!
> They also have the potential for other auction-ish abuses,
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 auctions? It's just as much an
OBO-ish abuse as it is an auction-ish abuse.
> 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.
I agree. Maybe it's time to kill .buy-sell-trade and .auction and replace
them with:
.barter
Exchange of goods for goods -- rather than goods for money.
(The word "trade" has too many different meanings.)
.forsale.auction
Traditional auctions, SBA's, and OBO's. Anything non-fixed price.
(".auction" is just a label here; it would be more accurately called
".variable" or ".negotiated", but probably more widely understood as
".auction")
.forsale.fixed
Fixed-price straight sales -- no negotiations.
.wanted
Hopeful/wishful want-lists as well as concrete offers to buy.
--Todd
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