Dan Chisarick wrote:
Evil? Immoral? Risky?
All of the above. It's called shilling on ebay, and gets you
booted'n'banned. Not in favor of it. :)
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Jim Leonard ([EMAIL PROTECTED])http://www.oldskool.org/
Want to help an ambitious games project?
Not quite. The idea is that no outsider bids on the item. The goal is
to get people who have these items to list them when they see the
(bogus) selling price, not bilk a poor collector (or wealthy one as the
case may be). No one actually pays the 'winning' amount. The only
safe way (not
Dan Chisarick wrote:
Not quite. The idea is that no outsider bids on the item.
Doesn't matter -- it's still deception to raise the price of an item.
Just because *that one auction* doesn't sell at the higher price doesn't
mean that others won't. It's artificial price fixing. (slaps Dan on
And it goes on every day in a number of industries. :-)
Jim Leonard wrote:
Dan Chisarick wrote:
Not quite. The idea is that no outsider bids on the item.
Doesn't matter -- it's still deception to raise the price of an item.
Just because *that one auction* doesn't sell at the higher price
Stephane Racle wrote:
And it goes on every day in a number of industries. :-)
Yes, but that doesn't mean it has to go on in ours. This mailing list
has several prominent people of the software collecting movement as
members, and I don't think it's a stretch to say that, if we all acted
in
I didn't mean to imply that it should, and I'm with you on this. I just
thought it was a funny juxtaposition of words:
It's artificial price fixing. (slaps Dan on wrist)
That is, a lot of white-collar criminals only get a slap on the wrist.
Stephane
Jim Leonard wrote:
Stephane Racle wrote:
And
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Subject: Re: [SWCollect] Even marginally ethical?
Stephane Racle wrote:
And it goes on every day in a number of industries. :-)
Yes, but that doesn't mean it has to go on in ours. This mailing list
has several prominent people
Jim Leonard schrieb:
Stephane Racle wrote:
And it goes on every day in a number of industries. :-)
Yes, but that doesn't mean it has to go on in ours. This mailing list
has several prominent people of the software collecting movement as
members, and I don't think it's a stretch to say
It's certainly unethical, but I must confess I'm lured
to the idea. Of course I don't really own anything
that would loosely fetch those high prices, and
wouldn't afford the items that are dug out by the
unaware, so I couldn't do anything but watch you guys
build up your collections (or fortunes
