I've had mixed responses from emails I hoped would be helpful as well. You know, very few items in the world are rare enough that simply doing a quick search on eBay itself wouldn't tell you what you needed to know about setting a minimum bid. Forgive my cynicism, but generally speaking, people are just really stupid most of the time. The smart ones join email lists. ;-)
Best again, Robert ----- Original Message ----- From: "Steven Medved" <[email protected]> To: "Phono-l" <[email protected]> Sent: Saturday, December 11, 2004 10:32 AM Subject: Re: [Phono-L] today's funniest ebay listing > > Hi Fred, > > This illustrates the difference between ignorance (lack of knowledge) and > the inability to grasp or attain knowledge. I have communicated with many > people over the years including the man who described blue amberols as wax > records and offered 2 for $1500.00. When I wrote to him and described the > records, including features not shown, and gave a history he thanked me and > said an antique dealer had appraised them for that price and thanked me. I > wrote one hateful person and told him what model his DD phono was and he > wrote me a hateful letter back. For almost a year I did not write to > people. I find most people are thankful, but some are really, really > hateful. > > Steve > > > You know. I just don't get it. With the resources available today in print, > and on the internet there is just no excuse for being this far off on the > real value of something. I think that whatever I was selling on ebay I > could spend a few minutes, and get a pretty good idea of its market value. > These days it just isn't that difficult. > > _______________________________________________ > Phono-L mailing list > [email protected] > > Phono-L Archive > http://www.oldcrank.org/pipermail/phono-l/ >
