[LargeFormat] extreme ebay madness

[Paul and Paula Butzi]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Tim Atherton" <tim@KairosPhoto.com>
To: <largeformat@f32.net>
Sent: Wednesday, February 13, 2002 8:36 PM
Subject: RE: [LargeFormat] extreme ebay madness


> >
> > Well Dagor's was a first edition.
> 
> wow - first edition - as it was published last summer I imagine there is no
> second edition!
> 
> someone got ripped off!

While it may, apparently, be a "common scam", it is only so where there
is the intent to do so. There are most likely as many "innocent"
transactions of this sort going on. Entirely common and acceptable 
in my experience. Illegal - nope. Unethical - hardly.

-Paul

(the text is, almost word for word, what you wrote on Feb 5 regarding
various schemes for avoiding Ebay fees.  What's sauce for the goose
is sauce for the gander.  You can hardly complain 'someone got ripped
off' in this case while gleefully exhorting people to rip off Ebay in another.
If you're going to laud people who negotiate ways to avoid Ebay fees (what
I'd call 'sharp' business practice) then you should laud someone who 
by simple copywriting manages to drive the price up beyond the point
you think it's a good value. )