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RE: [OM] selling to the list and trouble w/ Olympus America

Subject: RE: [OM] selling to the list and trouble w/ Olympus America
From: "Harridge, Wayne" <Wayne.Harridge@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 28 Feb 2000 11:26:15 +0800
P.J. wrote:
 
> 
> As a digest reader, I feel I am at a disadvantage to For Sale 
> offers on the 
> list.  Everything seems to be sold by the time I get around 
> to reading about 
> it.  I thought about offering a higher price, but I didn't 
> know if that was 
> fair.  I thought it might be a good idea to offer a minimum 
> price on the item 
> and let people offer a highest price they willing to pay only 
> once (no 
> bidding wars).  The seller would then take the price offered 
> which exceeds 
> the second highest bid buy a dollar.  The seller would then 
> notify the person 
> offering the highest bid along with the e-mail address of the 
> second highest 
> bid to confirm that the selling price is based on the second 
> highest bid.  I 
> realize this is a psuedo auction, but it gives everybody an 
> equal chance at 
> the item and might keep Mr. Early Bird, Tom Scales, from 
> getting everything!

I think your suggestion makes the whole process too complicated, why not
subscribe to the normal list (instead of the digest) ?

I could claim that I am disadvantaged also as most of the activity occurs
with USA members who are busy posting while I am asleep, a lot of threads
are born and die before I have a say.  The solution to your problem is
simple.

Wayne Harridge
Ivanhoe, Victoria, Australia
http://www.geocities.com/Paris/Louvre/6152/  

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