My comments were not aimed at anyone here personally. My comments are aimed at shill bidders and Ebay for allowing it to happen. I am convinced that many sellers have friends/acomplices that purposely bid up their items. Why would anyone, who actually wants an item, bid in small increments time after time, running up the price on themselves, especially with a no reserve auction? In this radio auction the thug that ran up the price on purpose was bidder number 4. he bumped it up till he was ahead....then waited for Litsnsirn to bid again. Then bidder number 4, bidding in small increments, ran it up again. Naturally he didnt bid at the end though....
If you are willing to pay 450.00 for the item that is fine. I personally would not have paid that much but that is just me. We all have paid more for items than we probably should have. (hell I bought an owners manual for 117.00 one day to prove a point to somebody). My best advice is that if you are willing to pay 450.00 for something you should place that 450.00 bid with about 7 seconds left in the auction. i think if Litsnsirn had done that in this case he would have probably only had to pay 275 or so. Not his fault though. I blame it on bidder number 4....... The radio by the way is very nice...one of the nicest I have seen. It will look great in your car I am sure.
ebay is a great place to find stuff, but it is a swindlers paradise also. I am going their now to see if I can find a set of those long obsolete rare SSP windshied wipers........
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Jim
for the first time since 1998 there is only two left:
1984 Oregon SP unmarked
1986 Idaho SP
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