1. if you one is a seller(buyer) dealing with the same 10 people every day, i bet he's pretty "considerate" to them as well. that's called "business relationship" and firms tend to spend quite a bit of $ maintaining them.
2. i am wondering how considerate one would have been if he had had a different set of neighbourghs every night (gipsies?) :) that's what ebay is, from a business perspective. basically, it's a "prisoner's dilemma" vs an "iterative prisoner's dilemma". a fascinating topic, but i don't have an idea how to make it relevant to anything pentax best, mishka On Wed, 10 Nov 2004 18:44:10 -0600, Don Sanderson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > If I "play by the rules" I can: > <...> > None of these are "against the rules", but they would > qualify me as a grade A ass****! > I don't do these things, not because I care a whit about > whether I'm breaking rules or not, I don't do them > because I like to sleep at night. > I use the same philosophy in buying and selling on eBay. > > Don