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Metalworking (rec.crafts.metalworking) Discuss various aspects of working with metal, such as machining, welding, metal joining, screwing, casting, hardening/tempering, blacksmithing/forging, spinning and hammer work, sheet metal work. |
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Look at the bid page, you also have to pay a buyers premium on top of
your bid price.......just like most realtime auctions do. -- Visit my website: http://www.frugalmachinist.com Contents: foundry and general metal working and lots of related projects. Regards Roy aka Chipmaker // Foxeye Opinions are strictly those of my wife....I have had no input whatsoever. Remove capital A from chipmAkr for correct email address |
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Roy wrote:
Look at the bid page, you also have to pay a buyers premium on top of your bid price.......just like most realtime auctions do. What are you talking about? There is no buyers premium on ebay. There are fees to the seller, but to the buyer, the price you pay is the price the auction ended at (plus postage/packing/extortion) -- http://inquisitor.i.am/ | | Ian Stirling. ---------------------------+-------------------------+-------------------------- 'Where subtlety fails, we must simply make do with cream pies' -- David Brin |
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Ian Stirling wrote:
What are you talking about? There is no buyers premium on ebay. There are fees to the seller, but to the buyer, the price you pay is the price the auction ended at (plus postage/packing/extortion) What are YOU talking about? Might be helpful to your case if you'd go look for yourself. This is something new. It's NOT a normal ebay auction and you cannot bid in the normal ebay fashion. Ebay doesn't allow advertising for sales outside of the auction and I was about to report this guy last night when I read it's being done in conjunction with ebay. I rather suspect it's an attempt by ebay to tap directly into the industrial auction market, ala Dovebid. Jon |
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"Ian Stirling" The message I responded to had no References: header, meaning that it'll show up as a new thread in many/most newsreaders. I hadn't seen the other thread, and the article mentioned no auction numbers, and diddn't quote any of the original message, so I had no way to know that it was intended as a comment on that thread. Yup! |
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Ian Stirling wrote:
The message I responded to had no References: header, meaning that it'll show up as a new thread in many/most newsreaders. Well then, I owe you an apology. Sorry about that. Jon |
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On Sun, 31 Aug 2003 07:13:02 -0700, Jon Anderson
wrote: What are YOU talking about? Might be helpful to your case if you'd go look for yourself. This is something new. It's NOT a normal ebay auction and you cannot bid in the normal ebay fashion. Ebay doesn't allow advertising for sales outside of the auction and I was about to report this guy last night when I read it's being done in conjunction with ebay. I rather suspect it's an attempt by ebay to tap directly into the industrial auction market, ala Dovebid. What you got here is rampant greed trying to find another opening to make more money. The 13 percent buyer's premium is going to either by taken by eBay or split with the "real" auction. Both of the auctions are in a win-win situation if much online bidding takes place. I personally hop the concept falls on it ass and is never seen again. It is stupid! -----= Posted via Newsfeeds.Com, Uncensored Usenet News =----- http://www.newsfeeds.com - The #1 Newsgroup Service in the World! -----== Over 100,000 Newsgroups - 19 Different Servers! =----- |
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Jon Anderson writes:
Ebay doesn't allow advertising for sales outside of the auction and I was about to report this guy last night when I read it's being done in conjunction with ebay. I rather suspect it's an attempt by ebay to tap directly into the industrial auction market, ala Dovebid. There is no evidence this is actually in "conjunction with" eBay, just claims to that effect. The domain names and their owners linked are different places and different people than eBay. Either this "conjunction with" is a phony claim, or eBay is putting up a really clumsy and self- defeating effort that is going to dilute their brand. |
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