On Thu, 6 Aug 1998 00:56:34 -0400 (EDT), you wrote:
quoted 2 lines Hmm, can't seem to go a day without seeing another one of these auctioned.
>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.
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