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Re: [OM] Price heckling...

Subject: Re: [OM] Price heckling...
From: svtbrad@xxxxxxxxxx (Bradley Mabb)
Date: Tue, 10 Mar 1998 20:11:42 -0800
      Again,I now realize my mistake and am sincerely sorry.I am new to this 
  newsgroup thing and hadn't realize what I was doing was wrong.
>
>                                           sincerely,
                                               Brad
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>> From: R. Lee Hawkins <lhawkins@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>> To: olympus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>> Cc: lhawkins@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>> Subject: [OM] Price heckling...
>> Date: 10 March 1998 18:08
>> 
>> 
>> Hi all:
>> I'd like to get other's opinions on "price heckling".  What do I mean by
>> this?  Say I post an item for sale, and you think my price is too high.
>> Is it ethical for you, as an uninvolved party, to challenge my pricing
>> publically in the list?  I have been very tempted in the past to
>> "heckle" various people, but have refrained, because I gave these people
>> the benefit of the doubt, assuming that they had good reasons for
>> posting the price they did.  I also think it sets a bad precident.  If
>> people continuously heckle eachother's pricing, I don't think stuff will
>> continue to be advertised here any longer.  To me, it's just really rude
>> (you listening, Brad?) to butt in about a price when you aren't planning
>> to buy the item.  I have seen cases on rec.photo.marketplace where
>> someone had something sold, then some smart guy price heckled, and the
>> sale fell through.  And these weren't cases where the items were
>> overpriced.  Let's not let this list drop to the level of r.p.m.
>> 
>> Ideas?  Thoughts?  My next post will be a re-pricing of my lenses, since
>> I'm sure no one will want them at my original prices due to Brad's price
>> heckling.
>> 
>> Cheers,
>> --Lee
>> ________________________________________________________________________
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>> Department of Astronomy                       lhawkins@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
>> Whitin Observatory   http://www.astro.wellesley.edu/lhawkins/lee.html
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