Dear Private Enterprise enthusiasts, >Everyone pay attention to the coins in the ART section instead! >http://www.GoldBarter.com/viewauction.jsp?id=33
Yes, Mr. Ray. Them's some interesting coins. Beautiful orange plastic (PLASTIC?! yes, plastic) coins, created and spent by the artist. Wow. I guess anything is money if you have a convincing patter. Now, I'm not knocking it, but there must be more story to these coins than is displayed on the auction page. I see that the many fine images that are found at: http://www.interestingsoftware.com/pat/bog/ don't show up on the GoldBarter auction site. That must mean that people aren't aware of or don't see or find confusing our input form where a link to an image can be added to the auction. I would think we can improve that input screen, somehow, and invite your input. Also, as I show in my auction http://www.GoldBarter.com/viewauction.jsp?id=29 the system is configured to let you use HTML to code up your auction description, so I have another image of the obverse of the coin I'm offering for sale. >Shipping costs, Well, as I understand it, the seller doesn't insist that the buyer take delivery. I've talked to old Tex, and he seems to think that the buyer may avail himself of secure storage. > risk, and uncertainty seem to make gold coins a bad auction >item. Risk and uncertainty of what? Risk that the coin isn't a coin? That's covered in the terms of service. You get what you pay for, and there is a good system, IMNSFHO, for dealing with fraud. As far as being a bad auction item, I would have to differ based only on the evidence in hand. There have been no bids on anything else, as far as I can see from reviewing the site, which I do rather often. In fact, it seems that this gold coin is the only thing people find worth bidding upon. > But you're in Houston, right? I am on Planet Earth. I don't think it prudent to broadcast my whereabouts. The experience of "Strike" as reported by the NBC Dateline (Tattleline is more like it) representatives of the Drug Enforcement Admin the other night is indicative of why Internet entrepreneurs shouldn't be open about their whereabouts. > So if I win the auction, could I pick the coin up in person? You would have to take that up with Tex. If you win the auction, you should contact the seller via his e-mail account on the auction board. I'm sure those remain visible in the "closed auctions" section. One would think that Tex would be agreeable to a meeting. He's such a warm, interesting, personable, charming, erudite fellow, after all. <grin> Tara of TarasVirtualStudio.com writes, >Just to let you know I have just uploaded my 6th Archive, it features 58 >Images and it's quite a bit different to the rest, it shows more of the real >me.... (no not like that.... your minds are in the gutter) *lol* >It's only 10$ E-Gold too. It seems to me, Tara, that this item, this archive, is an ideal candidate for auction. What makes you think it is worth only $10 of e-gold? I mean, if an exclusive archive were offerred for auction on GoldBarter.com, it might prove to be worth several dozen grams of gold. Or you could Dutch auction more than one to see where the price goes. (Tristan - have we implemented the Dutch auction feature?) >(I hate replies to myself, but...) Why? You have to be one of the more interesting people posting to this list, so you should feel confident in replying to yourself. >On a more-serious note, you should consider doing as ebay does, and >setting your system to automatically send email that says something >like, "somebody just outbid you on X's auction for Y item! Quick!! Go to >the Goldbarter site to outbid THEM!!!" (Ok, you might want to word it a >bit differently!) Yes. I do like this idea. In fact, I believe this idea is represented in our plans for upgrade to version 2.0. It would seem to be one of the more useful features we could add to the service. >I don't have "promotional emails" checked on my account, Well! I mean, really! I'm stung, Jim. <grin> > but I KNOW I >don't have it checked on ebay, either. ebay sends me what is in effect >a promotional email every time I get outbid (I tolerate not-being-paid for >it because it's also information I want & because most companies are >still clueless about email-for-money). See, I think that is one of the very highly powerful things not being tapped in the Internet economy thus far. E-gold and other vendors allow for the very small denomination transactions with those three decimal places. .001 grams of gold is, what, about 9 tenths of a US cent? And there is really nothing that prevents an individual from offering a product or service for even less of a fractional gram, accumulating these micropayments until it is worth making a transfer, or having people pre-fund accounts that are debited at a micropayment rate. I would think that people would be wiling to play online games, send and receive e-mails for money, respond to feedback surveys for money, and even read brilliantly written essays online for a very small fee. Things which are free, and being subsidized by advertising, might well be subscriber-funded if the price is set properly. And, that is one further reason for something like GoldBarter, to help set prices for things. Guido Farrugia writes: >What can i do for you? If you are interested in a job vacancy, then Do people still take jobs? Isn't that somewhat 20th Century? On the other hand, I would think a body of business activity would be a fine thing to auction on GoldBarter.com. Post the job description and see what people want to be paid for it. Hmm. That would require a reverse auction where the bids go from high to low.... Regards, Jim http://www.GoldBarter.com/ --> private enterprise needs a free market. Your high bid means you win! --- You are currently subscribed to e-gold-list as: [email protected] To unsubscribe send a blank email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Did you know that e-metal is a wonderful holiday gift? Avoid the hassle this year!
