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From: roy@phri.UUCP (Roy Smith)
Newsgroups: news.admin,comp.sys.mac,misc.forsale
Subject: Re: 1 Mb SIMMs for sale
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Date: 19 Jun 88 14:42:05 GMT
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Reply-To: roy@phri.UUCP (Roy Smith)
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werner@utastro.UUCP (Werner Uhrig) writes:
> Wheras I have no problem with someone posting a "for-sale", I think that it
> is abuse of the net to conduct a "bidding-war" as Mr. Cooper is doing here.

	Right on!  I'm not 100% sure I like for-sale postings at all, but
I'm willing to live with them.  You might even be able to persuade me that
for-sale postings in technical groups are OK, if done with class and
restraint.  But to engage in the kind of public bidding war we've been
seing lately is crossing far over the line of what I consider being a good
net citizen.

	Even if this weren't being done on the net, Cooper's going about it
in a sleezy way.  Auctions come in two basic varieties; sealed bid and
public competition.  Both have their risks and both have their advantages.
But to advertize a sealed bid auction like Cooper did and then change the
rules in bid-steam because he didn't like the bids he was getting is not
fair.
-- 
Roy Smith, System Administrator
Public Health Research Institute
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