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Auction etiquette?
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lugnet.market.theory
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Mon, 2 Apr 2001 17:56:30 GMT
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I'm not sure if I'm in the right group; if not, please direct followups to
the correct place!
While browsing eBay this morning, I came across an item with a misleading,
if not fraudulent. It's an item currently available on the retail market
for $50, but the description says "THE VALUE IS MORE THEN $125.00." Value,
of course, is a subjective quality, but it seems clear that the seller hopes
to boost the bids on this item by exaggerating its actual worth.
I'm aware that eBay's TOS frowns on emailing bidders to inform them of
better prices elsewhere, but what does it say about mailing a seller to say,
"hey, you're over-stating the value of this common item"?
I'm not particularly interested in this auction, but I've seen the same
sort of hyperbole before.
Dave!
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| (...) Dave, it's probably not worth your time to email the seller. You'll probably just get some snarky reply that, "if you don't like it, DON'T BID!!". You'll just get even more P-O'ed at them. I saw something similar a while back where a seller (...) (24 years ago, 5-Apr-01, to lugnet.market.theory)
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