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From: dc@gcm (Dave Caswell)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac,misc.forsale
Subject: Re: 1 Mb SIMMs for sale
Message-ID: <517@white.gcm>
Date: 9 Jun 88 22:59:48 GMT
References: <2716@utastro.UUCP> <593@stech.UUCP>
Reply-To: dc@white.UUCP (Dave Caswell)
Organization: Greenwich Capital Markets, Greenwich, CT
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In article <593@stech.UUCP> sysop@stech.UUCP (Jan Harrington) writes:
.
.I agree with you about the bidding, but for a different reason. We all know
.that there is a drastic shortage of DRAMs. I think that this bidding business
.(and this isn't the first net to be infected with it) is taking an unfair
.advantage of something that hurts us all and that we can't control. I think
.it is simply unethical. (No, it's not illegal, just not very "nice".)
.
.Please, people, do as the sender of this message suggests. Set a fair price
.for your SIMMs and sell to the first person who accepts that price. Don't 
.have people bid on them to jack up the price. 

It is perfectly ethical, nice etc.  No one is being taken advantage of,
unfairly or any other way.  It is one of the best ways to determine a 
fair price.  Having a fair price is in everyones best interest.  If the
price hadn't been artificially low for so long maybe we would now have the
capacity to supply the demand and there would not be such a shortage.

The Net isn't the right place to carry out these commercial activities
however.
-- 
Dave Caswell
Greenwich Capital Markets                             uunet!philabs!gcm!dc
If it could mean something, I wouldn't have posted about it! -- Brian Case