[78-L] "Buy It Now!"

[Philip Carli]

At the same time, how many similar notes may the fellow have received from watchers either in your same position or trying dishonorably trying to do a back-door deal?  Cynicism pervades everyone doing this. 
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From: 78-l-bounces at klickitat.78online.com [78-l-bounces at klickitat.78online.com] On Behalf Of David Lennick [dlennick at sympatico.ca]
Sent: Monday, November 08, 2010 3:24 PM
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I love the ones where I just miss bidding on an item (sometimes through slow
e-mail, sometimes I see it a bit late) and the seller won't consider giving it
to me for the minimum because he wants to post it again. Five minutes earlier
and he would have sold it.

dl

On 11/8/2010 3:18 PM, Glenn Longwell wrote:
> Well, I just made a very reasonable offer (i.e. what I believe the records are worth) like this to someone who has 6 records at buy it now prices I wouldn't pay for.  All six went unsold and back up for another 30 days and I never got a response.  On the bright side, I just saved $60 plus shipping.
>
> Glenn
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> --- On Mon, 11/8/10, Philip Carli<Philip_Carli at pittsford.monroe.edu>  wrote:
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> From: Philip Carli<Philip_Carli at pittsford.monroe.edu>
> Subject: Re: [78-L] "Buy It Now!"
> To: "78-L Mail List"<78-l at klickitat.78online.com>
> Date: Monday, November 8, 2010, 2:06 PM
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> I wonder if anyone has taken the simple step with "Buy It Nows" that look really interesting of sending an inquiry to the seller even if there isn't a "Make offer" note, especially if the stuff has sat a while.  Civil questions cost nothing, and something may be gained.  Personally, I hate the competitiveness and ersatz "excitement" of auctions, though I do buy things on eBay auctions.  I'd rather see a price and either pay it or not.  I've found many unusual things, even quite recently, at very fair prices (at least to _me_) that way.  The rest of it -- well, it really is a matter of taste. P Carli
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> From: 78-l-bounces at klickitat.78online.com [78-l-bounces at klickitat.78online.com] On Behalf Of Malcolm Rockwell [malcolm at 78data.com]
> Sent: Monday, November 08, 2010 1:48 PM
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> You can opt to remove all the "Buy It Now" records from the daily
> auction list. There's a tab at the top of the  page that allows either
> both BIN + auctions, BIN only, or Auctions only. I choose to filter out
> the BINs because I feel much the way you do. If i want to I can always
> go back later and check the BINs out but I find a higher class of dealer
> with the auctions only. There's less truly wor
>
> On 11/8/2010 7:50 AM, Dennis Flannigan wrote:
>> Has ebay's "buy it now" option, rather than auction only option, ruined
>> record collecting? Well, probably no, but reading columns and columns of
>> records that won't sell for sale at absurd prices does get old. Like
>> attending a record convention with all the dealers the ones you can't stand.
>>
>> df
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