WHO GIVES A RAT'S A$$!!! If you want the truck, bid higher...if not, forget
it and move on. Life is way too short to be worrying about it.
Darin
>From: "Rick Barnes" <barnesrv@attbi.com>
>Reply-To: dakota-truck@dakota-truck.net
>To: <dakota-truck@dakota-truck.net>
>Subject: RE: DML: RE: 1999 Dakota R/T - HEAVILY MODDED - $8800!!!
>Date: Thu, 8 May 2003 12:40:33 -0400
>
>
>I am totally familiar and appreciate the long explanation that you went to
>the trouble of typing. Nonetheless, at the Barrett Jackson auction, (where
>I have purchased cars), NO RESERVE is NO MINIMUM and the sale is final. So
>a minimum bid is a reserve, plain and simple.
>
>Rascal
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: owner-dakota-truck@bent.twistedbits.net
>[mailto:owner-dakota-truck@bent.twistedbits.net] On Behalf Of Jeff Durling
>Sent: Thursday, May 08, 2003 11:21 AM
>To: dakota-truck@dakota-truck.net
>Subject: RE: DML: RE: 1999 Dakota R/T - HEAVILY MODDED - $8800!!!
>
>
>Actually the way a goods auction works, especially an auto one, is that
>you can set any starting price without a reserve. The reserve is only if
>you want a certain amount above that to sell it. The reason virtually
>nobody ever would start at a zero bid is you always start your price out
>at an acceptable, but a little below, value for what you are selling to
>protect against underpayment. There have been documented cases of
>bidders getting together in the past and buying cars for well below the
>value by just not bidding and then offering a way low price.
>
>Any respectable goods auction, again especially in the car auction
>markets, will require a minimum bid. eBay may not really require much if
>at all but a known auction, such as Barrett-Jackson, Would not let you
>sell a car without a decent starting bid without signing a lot of
>paperwork.
>
>Rascal, I'm not trying to challenge you but I just get the impression
>that you may not be familiar with rules that most auctions follow.
>
>Jeff Durling
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: owner-dakota-truck@bent.twistedbits.net
>[mailto:owner-dakota-truck@bent.twistedbits.net] On Behalf Of Rick
>Barnes
>Sent: Thursday, May 08, 2003 10:05 AM
>To: dakota-truck@dakota-truck.net
>Subject: RE: DML: RE: 1999 Dakota R/T - HEAVILY MODDED - $8800!!!
>
>
>Sorry, not trying to sound as if I am arguing, just think its silly to
>say
>no reserve when in fact there is one.
>
>Rascal
>
>
>
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