luis <chilled_delirium@mailstation.com> writes: > > A 05:02 PM 27-08-02 -0500, David Dyer-Bennet wrote: > > > > > >Except that many people, like me, consider a hidden reserve as > > >essentially fraudulent, and won't deal with reserve auctions. If I > > >*really* want to participate, I'll email and ask what the reserve is. > > Regardless what anyone thinks, the hidden reserve is a perfectly > legitimate way of doing things, and a long-standng tradition on EBay. > If it bothers you, don't participate. It's that simple. Ebay has had it from the beginning, yes. You'll notice that if you put a "reserve bid" equivalent against something you're selling at Christies, and you get it yourself, you still have to pay the auction house its percentage. That makes that practice somewhat self-limiting. On ebay, there's no comparable disadvantage. -- David Dyer-Bennet, dd-b@dd-b.net / New TMDA anti-spam in test John Dyer-Bennet 1915-2002 Memorial Site http://john.dyer-bennet.net Book log: http://www.dd-b.net/dd-b/Ouroboros/booknotes/ New Dragaera mailing lists, see http://dragaera.info
