I tend to agree with Kent on this one, if, as has been said many times, this list is something of a community or a neighborhood comprised of people with similar interests.
To offer an item to your friends first - at a price that's acceptable to you - seems like the thing to do, but that's just my POV. However, I won't denigrate someone for not following that route, but I probably won't bid on the item, either. I don't consider it "shilling". Kent Gittings wrote: > > No he's just hoping some poor schlep on the list will help bid his item up. > If he was concerned about his "friends" on the list he would offer them here > first. At least offering them before he puts them at auction. That's what I > do. Reputable people on this list do that. I just don't put him in that > category now. Paul Stregevsky wrote: > I don't understand why you consider it > shilling when one publicizes that he > has posted an item at auction. It's > shilling only if he enlists someone to > bid up the price with no intention of > being the final buyer. That's not the > typical PDML poster's intention at all; > he just wants to give his fellow > list members a fair crack at owning the > item without selling himself short. -- Shel Belinkoff mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://home.earthlink.net/~belinkoff/ - This message is from the Pentax-Discuss Mail List. To unsubscribe, go to http://www.pdml.net and follow the directions. Don't forget to visit the Pentax Users' Gallery at http://pug.komkon.org .
