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 and Linux lists of one sort or another. > > One of these lists is a very on-topic discussion of lightweight steel > bicycles of a specific vintage. They have no eBay rule. They > encourage > eBay "outings". And they're all a bunch of rich old bastards > trying to > regain a bit of their youth, which means no bicycle is too > expensive and > no bid is too high. > > Last week I was watching a hand made German bicycle (Italian steel and > French components, go figure). $75 with about a day to go when it was > "outed" to the list. By the time the auction closed the bids had > approached $600. And every single fucking bid after that first $50 > was > from a member of "the list". > > 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. > > So anyway, I'd like to thank the PDML for not being a bunch of dicks. > > -- > Scott Loveless > http://www.twosixteen.com/fivetoedsloth/ > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above > and follow the directions. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
