At 15:52 31.1.2001 -0600, you wrote:
>Nope, the only requirement is that folks should not conspire to
>hold down the price of auctioned items. One of the examples
>given was a group of individuals all interested in a certain
>category of items decide amongst themselves to allow only one of
>their number to place bids on a specific item and nobody in the
>group will bid against him. They have, therefore, conspired to
>hold down the price the seller can receive. The whole group has
>committed a felony by so doing. Shilling on an auction
>(conspiring to drive the price up) is just as illegal. In the
>U.S.A., that is. Outside the U.S.A. could be different.
So if my friends decide to not bid against me, we commited a crime?
Strange. I propably understand it bad. The US laws are just amazing. I am
sometimes glad I don't live there!
What the lawyers just don't think of (no offence meant to lawyers here,
some of my best friends are lawyers ;) It's jsut the majority that sucks)
Fr.
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