[AJD] $300 Ebay JD gas cap

[Dean VP]

I suspect this auction is on the up and up for a couple reasons. 

1.) The seller is from within 10 miles from where I was born and raised. All
people who live or have lived in this area are 100% straight shooters!  :-)
There used to be a huge antique tractor salvage yard in Doon, IA. I'm afraid
what was left went to meltdown heaven unfortunately. 

2.) The real reason I believe this is a straight & honest auction is that
most, if not all, of those bidding have bid and/or have purchased items from
me on eBay. 

I just suspect this is just such a unique rare item that those with excess
disposable cash are falling all over themselves. As an alternative, I would
be happy to sell them each a yardstick for 100th of the current bid price
and could achieve the same objective. I might even have some yardsticks here
with Coast to Coast or something really rare screened on them as well. My
cost on those is pretty low. For one tenth the current bid price I probably
could get them screened (maybe even embossed somehow) with the name John
Deere on them with a 1950's logo.

As a suggestion, I think we have to be a bit cautious about accusing the
seller of funny stuff w/o having any evidence to back it up. We need to walk
a mile in our neighbors moccasins before we become too critical. Yep,
sometimes I forget that rule too.  

Dean A. Van Peursem
Snohomish, WA 98290

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-----Original Message-----
From: antique-johndeere-bounces at lists.antique-tractor.com
[mailto:antique-johndeere-bounces at lists.antique-tractor.com] On Behalf Of
Chris C
Sent: Sunday, November 20, 2005 7:41 PM
To: Antique John Deere mailing list
Subject: Re: Re[4]: [AJD] $300 Ebay JD gas cap

Hello All,

    I see the same seller has another one of these gas
caps as item # 7563593824  presently selling for about
$300.  I have compared bidder lists from the previous
auction and two of the bidders are the same,  but the
rest are unique.  Not sure if the darned thing is
really made of gold or what..  Wonder how many of
these the guy has??

    The closed item number is  7560234025  if you want
to compare for yourself...Now I think I need two of
these if they are that popular....

                Chris

--- Spencer Yost <yostsw at atis.net> wrote:

> Sorry for the delay in posting this, and I guess you
> have already gotten a
> sense of what shill bidding is from the other
> follow-up posts.   I'll
> answer anyways though because I want to mention
> another resource too:
> Shill bids are fake bids from the seller or his
> friends meant to push real
> bidders up as far as they might go.   Its a delicate
> game the seller has to
> be careful with, but it will usually yield an extra
> 10-15% for the seller,
> especially on Ebay so it is very common.
> 
> So I use auctionstealer.com.  I don't do this
> because I think snipe bidding
> is all that useful(though I think it has been
> helpful from time to time),
> but it does prevent shill bidding when bidding is
> not very competitive and
> allows me to set a price a little more objectively
> than I might in the
> excitement of last minute bidding.  I put in the
> most I want to pay, and
> forget about it.  They bid in the last few seconds
> for me whether I am at
> work, driving, or eating dinner.   It is free(though
> there are extra
> capabilities for a fee) and very reliable.   My last
> bid goes in the last
> 15 seconds.   If I am very paranoid about the seller
> or the item is
> expensive, I pay the extra 2 bucks to get the 2-5
> second service.
> 
> Spencer Yost
> Owner, ATIS
> Plow the Net!
> http://www.atis.net
> 
> *********** REPLY SEPARATOR  ***********
> 
> On 11/7/2005 at 9:22 PM Chas. C. wrote:
> 
> >Spencer, mind giving those who might not know a
> little lesson in what 
> >"shill/push bidding is?
> >Charlie
> 
> 
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