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In lugnet.market.theory, Frank Filz writes:
> > So you are saying I can't set a price when I want to sell something?
> > Item's have a trade value. Not all people agree with these prices so I
> > figured I'd just post what they are worth in my mind, it wasn't to raise
> > the prices at all. and the buck that a couple of them are under I'd let
> > go, I just went by the list I created when I decided what sets I would
> > sell or trade to get the newer sets.
> > The prices I added were MY prices, I don't see this being a problem..
> > though if it is.. I give up..
> > I tried to ask about this, though I feel like I get ignored around here
> > when I ask questions. So just forget the whole thing..
> > Frank contact me if you want to go through with the trade, the rest are
> > staying in the attic..
>
> That being said, it is clear in my mind that your sell/trade offer has
> become an auction since you have posted peoples bids, and should have been
> moved to lugnet.market.auction. I'm ok with that, I can understand what you
> are trying to do. You would have been better off posting your starting
> prices originally, but that's 20-20 hindsight.
>
> The more and more I think about it, the more I am inclined to think that
> trying to separate auctions from other deals is not going to work. There are
> always grey areas. I wonder how many of the people who "don't even want to
> know auctions exist" follow lugnet.market.buy-sell-trade? The one person we
> heard from who doesn't want to hear about auctions didn't sound like he was
> interested in any market action at all.
<major, indiscriminate, snippage>
Ok. I've been trying to stay away from this whole thing with a ten-foot pole,
but my pole just snapped.
1:To make my position clear: I am one of those people who doesn't want to see
auction posts out of .auction, BST posts out of .BST, and thinks "sealed bid
auctions" and OBO's should be in .auction, although I conceed it's a very grey
area.
2:What Tamy did does not, in my mind, consitute an auction. She did not
solicite bids, she stated a value at which she would sell. That is so
blatently a trade/sale situation I can't believe it got mistaken for an
auction.
3:Tamy is a good trader, has put a HUGE amount of effort into market
activities, most specifically jambalaya, and to not even give her the benefit
of the doubt strikes me as seriously pushing the line of courtesy.
4:I think everyone has to take a step back, let things cool for a while, and
then approach this fresh. We are seeing the same kind of weird escalation we
saw before with the IP/catalogue scans debate, and I really, REALLY don't want
to see this go farther up.
James
http://www.shades-of-night.com/lego/
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