Thom R LaCosta <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> made an utterance to the qrplist gang ---------------------------------------------------------------------- On Sun, 16 Oct 2005, Mike Czuhajewski wrote:
This is one of those cases where you don't know whether to laugh, cry, or walk away mumbling to yourself :-) As is always the case on eBay or in any other transaction anywhere, caveat emptor. [I think that's from the Latin, meaning "empty the cave," or, "get those dang dinosaur bones out to the landfill now before the ants come!"] Or maybe one of those cases where egos flare up and you get into the mode of "that SOB isn't going to outbid me THIS time no matter how much I have to pay!!!" That's hardly unknown in auctions :-)
Years ago I used to go to a lot of "antique"(Other people's Junk) auctions. I quickly learned a technique that saved me huge sums of money...but I have yet to be able to apply it to Ebay Auctions.
The concept is quite simple....you make sure you are in the back of the auction place and using your best patois accent, let the auctioneer know that you ain't gonna get bested by them rafter bidders...you know, since you're in the back, the only folks who can outbid you are in the rafters.
With Ebay, there's no way to identify either the back of the building or the rafters themselves.
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