Re: Prices on the q-list (or ethics of any list or add)

[Leah Mueller <muellerl@cadvision.com>]

I don't know the add or how it read, but if it was an item offered for
auction and/or best offer over a certain floor or reserved price, that
should be stated. If I read an advertised item offered for a fixed firm
price, I would assume that the first one through with the cash or certified
cheque, in a reasonably agreed amount of time would close the deal. 

We will hear lots about this?  Maybe our Listmeister can help us on this?

One does also assume a sort of community ethic on a list such as this.

David

>Date: Thu, 5 Feb 1998 18:50:47 EST
>From: MHLIGGINS@aol.com
>Subject: Prices on the q-list
     I got a phone call this afternoon from a list-member that thoroughly
pissed me off. Someone listed something for sale, with a fixed, firm price.
(snip) Late this afternoon I got a call from the list-member.  Basically,
due to high interest, the firm fixed price to which we'd agreed had just
become the floor for an auction to determine the actual price.  Maybe
that's considered appropriate where some of you folk are.  But I do not do
business that way.
>     
>     --ml
>     Thoroughly Pissed in Bucksnort.