RE: Let us now praise famous eBay rules?

2007-12-20 Thread Malcolm Smith
Scott Loveless wrote: Tonight, a French bicycle with less than a day to go. Currently at $50. It's a mere 45 or 50 miles from my home. And it was outed a few minutes ago. Basically, I have no chance in hell of buying this bicycle anymore. One group has a couple of so called experts

Re: Let us now praise famous eBay rules?

2007-12-20 Thread David J Brooks
On Dec 19, 2007 10:12 PM, Scott Loveless [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: So anyway, I'd like to thank the PDML for not being a bunch of dicks. You left out Tom and Harry. Dave -- Scott Loveless http://www.twosixteen.com/fivetoedsloth/ -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net

Re: Let us now praise famous eBay rules?

2007-12-20 Thread Scott Loveless
David J Brooks wrote: On Dec 19, 2007 10:12 PM, Scott Loveless [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: So anyway, I'd like to thank the PDML for not being a bunch of dicks. You left out Tom and Harry. Sorry, Tom. Who the hell is Harry? -- Scott Loveless http://www.twosixteen.com/fivetoedsloth/ --

Re: Let us now praise famous eBay rules?

2007-12-20 Thread Bob Sullivan
Scott, You are going to have to evelop other sources. Try Craig's List, which someone just pointed out to me. Regards, Bob S. On Dec 19, 2007 10:35 PM, Bran Everseeking [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, 19 Dec 2007 22:12:54 -0500 Scott Loveless [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have a confession to

Re: Let us now praise famous eBay rules?

2007-12-20 Thread Bob Blakely
You didn't give the vintage, but German or not, back in the day there were only two serious sources of tubing in the world, Renyolds (English) Columbus (Italian ) - in English, Italian ('bout the same as English) and French tubing sizes. You could get them with either in English, Italian

Re: Let us now praise famous eBay rules?

2007-12-20 Thread Ken Waller
Sorry, Tom. Who the hell is Harry? He's the guy with all the hair. Kenneth Waller http://www.tinyurl.com/272u2f - Original Message - From: Scott Loveless [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Let us now praise famous eBay rules? David J Brooks wrote: On Dec 19, 2007 10:12 PM, Scott

Re: Let us now praise famous eBay rules?

2007-12-20 Thread graywolf
Ah, Paramounts, they were the thing, then they became old fashioned junk, and now they are insanely valuable antiques, especially the track bike with the wood rims. We used to make good stuff here in America. That was before the MBA's took over the world. I had a Raleigh Technium at one

Let us now praise famous eBay rules?

2007-12-19 Thread Scott Loveless
I have a confession to make. I subscribe to more than one mailing list. In fact, I subscribe to about 8, only two of which are photo-specific. The rest are bicycle and Linux lists of one sort or another. One of these lists is a very on-topic discussion of lightweight steel bicycles of a

Re: Let us now praise famous eBay rules?

2007-12-19 Thread Stan Halpin
Scott - you forgot to include the link to the auction... ;-) stan On Dec 19, 2007, at 9:12 PM, Scott Loveless wrote: I have a confession to make. I subscribe to more than one mailing list. In fact, I subscribe to about 8, only two of which are photo- specific. The rest are bicycle

Re: Let us now praise famous eBay rules?

2007-12-19 Thread graywolf
You are welcome. I am one of the heaviest proponents of that rule. Tout your own auction, but do not crap on someone else's deal. To me that is only common courtesy. I always have a dozen searches or so set up on eBay, and I sure get peeved when someone blows all that effort away. Especially

Re: Let us now praise famous eBay rules?

2007-12-19 Thread Scott Loveless
Stan Halpin wrote: Scott - you forgot to include the link to the auction... ;-) Did I? How rude of me. -- Scott Loveless http://www.twosixteen.com/fivetoedsloth/ -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML,

Re: Let us now praise famous eBay rules?

2007-12-19 Thread Doug Franklin
Scott Loveless wrote: So anyway, I'd like to thank the PDML for not being a bunch of dicks. That's OK, give us a few minutes, we'll work up some dickiness. :D -- Thanks, DougF (KG4LMZ) -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to

Re: Let us now praise famous eBay rules?

2007-12-19 Thread Scott Loveless
graywolf wrote: You are welcome. I am one of the heaviest proponents of that rule. Tout your own auction, but do not crap on someone else's deal. To me that is only common courtesy. I always have a dozen searches or so set up on eBay, and I sure get peeved when someone blows all that

Re: Let us now praise famous eBay rules?

2007-12-19 Thread Bran Everseeking
On Wed, 19 Dec 2007 22:12:54 -0500 Scott Loveless [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have a confession to make. I subscribe to more than one mailing list. In fact, I subscribe to about 8, only two of which are photo-specific. The rest are bicycle and Linux lists of one sort or another. sounds oddly