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Re: No really - a rational discussion of people selling via eBay?
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lugnet.market.theory
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Tue, 25 May 1999 03:15:56 GMT
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Mike Stanley wrote in message ...
:>It is a weltanshaung.
:Mmmmm.... a new word. German?
Mike, your the classicist, right? Maybe I'm spelling it wrong. The
word
I want is German for what we usually call "world view" (but to me auf
Deutch, it is more onomatopoetic).
:>I admit to being very amazed at the willingness to pay on ebay. It
is
:>almost scandalous. When there are people willing to pay such high
:>prices then you can be sure there will be people who are happy to
:>accept their money if they can trade what they want. Why are the
:>sellers
:>bad and the bidders only fools? One could just as easily say that
the
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:Not sure, but I don't think I would feel comfortable condemning
:someone for spending their own money. If Buyer A decides to spend 5x
:as much as any other buyer would spend on an item (technically
:impossible on eBay, I know, since Buyer A would only have to pay a
:small bit more than the next highest bidder) that's ultimately his
:business.
:
:>It is just funny to me that people often castigate scalpers but not
:>the
:>scalpees. People think the scalpees are crazy, but they impute
impure
:>motives to the scalpers. Both of these people wanted something
:>different than what they had before the transaction (cash or scout
:>troupers).
:
:Mmmmmm.... I guess I just see a difference between the two. In some
:ways I do get irritated when I see someone driving the price up on
:things that I know wouldn't go for such a high price under normal
:circumstances, but again, it's his/her money.
See this is where I just have a real problem seeing the difference in
the
word scalper. But maybe my inability is just based on symantics. You
and
Steve both said that the main criterion was truth in advertising. I
would call
the people that make the false "RARE" claims liars not scalpers. To me
the
L-word is worse. But since the scalper isn't coercive, if you don't
castigate
the buyer how can you castigate the seller. But I will admit this.
Mine is the
odd opinion out.
:>/1/ There has actually been some scholarly literature on this in
:>recent
:>years about why "scalping" is and should or should not be illegal.
If
:>anyone is interested and patient I can try to find the cites.
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:I'd be interested in seeing it. I hear lots of talk about scalping
:UTK football tickets, so it isn't just a Lego-related topic for me.
I'll try to dig it up. Give me a few weeks to find and post citations
here.
PS, Yesterday my children out of the blue said they wanted to go to
Tennessee. They didn't know why. My first though was - the home
state of the infamous Mike Stanley. How would I explain to my wife
why I wanted to stop in the middle of vacation to see the Lego
collection of some guy on the internet? You and my wife are safe,
we are headed for Toronto this summer, eh.
David Zorn
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