Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2001/03/10

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Subject: Re: [Leica] Zoom Saga...instead of fuss...DELETE IS YOUR FRIEND! USE IT!
From: Guy Bennett <gbennett@lainet.com>
Date: Sat, 10 Mar 2001 16:16:14 -0800
References: <NABBLIJOIFAICKBIEPJJIEDAIKAA.austin@darkroom.com> <3AAA6AB9.56500D87@umich.edu>

>If someone says to me:
>"WANT TO BUY MY M6?!!!"
>I assume THEY HAVE ONE WHICH IS PUTTING IT MILDLY!!
>When i shell out money and find out they don't I'm pissed!!!!!!!
>Lets not get carried away with our strenuous wheeling and dealing here.
>Fair is fair and OBVIOUS IS OBVIOUS!!!
>
>Mark Rabiner



Frankly, this is about the only common sense response I've yet seen to the
thread in question.

I have bought things from eBay in the past and will most likely do so in
the future. Each time I have assumed that the person who has put something
up for auction has actually had it to sell. Fortunately, this has always
been the case. Had I bid, and possibly "won" the auction and that proved to
*not* be the case, I would have been angry. And rightly so, I believe.

I don't know whether or not that constitutes a crime and, frankly, do not
care. I would have left a "negative feedback" stating that the so-called
seller offered for sale something he was not in a position to deliver, and
I would not have bid on an item from that seller again. I assume that an
eBay seller would do the same thing if I told him I did not have the money
that I bid for an item of his I "won."

I agree with Mark on this one - something is obviously wrong with the above
scenario.

Guy

Replies: Reply from Guy Bennett <gbennett@lainet.com> (RE: [Leica] Zoom Saga...instead of fuss...DELETE IS YOUR FRIEND! USE IT!)
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