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Re: shills on eBay
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lugnet.off-topic.debate
Date: 
Sun, 21 Feb 1999 20:22:42 GMT
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Barry McFarland <mcfarlandcj@home.com> wrote:
> On a related topic, is emailing a high bidder and telling him/her that he/she
> is getting ripped off consistent with the terms of use?  I only ask this
> because there was a thread on another, non-lego group in which this was
> claimed. I personally could not find any reference to this on the eBay site.

I personally wouldn't care if it were consistent with the terms of
use.  In fact, I e-mailed people like this long before I ever created
an active eBay user account, just because people used their e-mail
addresses as their user-ids.

Now that I have an eBay user account I usually e-mail them from an
address separate from the one eBay has, just so I don't (on the
surface) appear to be trying to hurt the seller's auctions in favor of
my own.

> (this debate about email to bidders was on rec.toys.cars if anyone is
> interested.)

I think I'll take a look at it, thanks.

> Since we are allready off-topic I will add that the collectible nature of toy
> cars seems to be waning.  Many or even most of the hotwheels listed lots on
> eBay are going unsold.  Many nice people emailed me in response to a WTB post
> with offers at near-retail pricing.  I hope this bodes well for SW lego as
> well.

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  Re: shills on eBay
 
(...) I think it is a fair idea (meaning that the process is a fair one). I don't believe that this is consistent with eBay's terms of use. Each ID must be a real person (not quoting the exact language of course). In fact eBay policy is changing on (...) (28 years ago, 21-Feb-99, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)

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