On the auction list: my opinion? People can offer items in any form they
wish. If someone wants to start a private auction for something, then
that's his/her business. Personaly, I offer items to the list at a set
price, first email gets the item. Auctions go to Ebay.
If someone takes the digest because its format suits their time management
better, then that's their choice. The disadvantage of a digest is that you
can't easily read threads and you often lose out on time-sensitive
offers. Also, replying to threads is harder because you can't just "reply"
to a message, you have to paste in the quoted text and the subject. But
your email box doesn't get flooded either. You have to take the good with
the bad.
Me? Digests drive me nuts! I use a modern email package (Eudora Pro) that
has folders and filters. When messages come to me from the olympus list
server, they automatically get put into my "Olympus List" folder. All the
other lists that I subscribe to (6 with regular traffic) also get their own
folders. That way I can read the list traffic in subject order at my
leisure, deleting all the threads I don't find interesting. It makes the
2-300 messages a day that I get VERY manageable. Sometimes I delete 900f
the threads when I don't have time to read them. If I want a digest to
read on the road, I will export all the unread messages in a specific
folder to a text file to read offline.
Skip
At 2/29/00 10:12 AM -0500, you wrote:
This in actuality is AN AUCTION. The only difference between this an eBay
is that you are only allowed one bid and the seller has to keep track of
everything. Do we want to turn this into an auction list?
-----Original Message-----
From: Johnsonpa@xxxxxxx [mailto:Johnsonpa@xxxxxxx]
Sent: Sunday, February 27, 2000 8:34 PM
To: olympus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [OM] selling to the list and trouble w/ Olympus America
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!
That's my $.02, but I'm many will disagree.
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