From Mark Stevens Sent Thu, Aug 6th 1998, 22:38
From Mark Stevens Sent Thu, Aug 6th 1998, 22:38
On Thu, 6 Aug 1998 00:56:34 -0400 (EDT), you wrote: >Hmm, can't seem to go a day without seeing another one of these auctioned. >What's going on? Is this about to be reissued or something? No, it's just a few people jumping on the auction bandwagon, realising it's a good way to make as much money as they can out of a particular rare bit of vinyl. Nothing wrong in that, of course, but some of these auctions can sound a bit dodgy -- how do you know you're genuinely bidding against someone else, or just responding to the auctioneer's attempts to artificially bump up the price? I know one bloke who tried to auction something in this group earlier this year. I emailed him a few bids, but he kept responding with something like, "Oh, someone else has just bumped up the offer by a tenner!" It started getting ridiculous, so I pulled out. A few weeks later, the bloke was trying to sell the same thing again. Dodge City. /\/)ark http://www.sonance.demon.co.uk/