my cognitive comprehension is still shocked by what happened on ebay
There's no such thing as an outrageous price, otherwise, by that definition, everything on ebay ever sold was done so at outrageous undercost while everything on dealers ever sold was done so at outrageous overcost
That's a good theory in business, you pay for services, brand, warranty, etc, and you know, an item is only ever worth what someone is willing to pay, amazes me that some people still persist in claiming that somehow items have any kind of objective value.
Anyway sometimes people on ebay are willing to for too outrageous underprice even for ebay standards, and I got tired of so many people moaning about my pricing, just because they want stuff to be cheap, while at the same time the same people ask much higher prices themselves when they're trying to sell things. You know, people are willing to attempt underprice when they do their bid, while they are willing to attempt overprice when they fill their auction price.
Consequently I wanted to grab and report in my auction a few lines from the price list of a few dealers, just to compare, and it happened that one of these dealers (which happened to have an account on ebay, they buy from ebay, underpriced, they sell out of ebay, overprices, they call it "profit") claimed they didn't authorized the use of a part of their price list, that was a completely violation of Copyright (so, that it's a new hit for me, never thought one could have the Copyright even on fudge paper) , therefore I got a long talk with ebay's henchmen in black, as result auction first suspended then closed, and It seems I am the black sheep.
oh, and - "it was a question of fairness, not promotion" - I was said, because I was indirectly promoting that mustard captain, and their motivations, briefly summarized in "We don't put mustard on our candy and we have candy for every sweet tooth! Everything from chocolates to gummy cherries and, of course, our delicious homemade fudge, which is made right here in our shop, they don't come from ebay, it's not a bullshit, look, the price is different, thus, to save our cooking recipe along with candy & homemade fudge, we apply the Copyright on the fudge paper where we happen to have our price list"
I can partially understand those guys, the deal was for a unix workstation and their parts, a few of these parts were listed that high (well, for ebay standards) because they said that the last time someone wanted to buy one from them, they had to buy it from an other dealer (yes, there is a pyramidal hierarchy) for over thousand UKP, and their profit on the deal was barely enough for a day's food.
OK, I understand, even if I wonder ... if it happens once, you can justify your overpriced till the end of time?
Anyway, sadly this is why I've been forced to move away somewhat from dealing with SGI stuff in recent years, because I can't get hold of stuff at a cost level that's worthwhile, if it's available at all, and the warranty risks at these cost levels are becoming scary as heck, including these dudes on ebay, who wants things for the price of a chips bag, and those dudes in the middle, who buys from ebay, and sells outside for their profit.
Nothing wrong, but hey? The Copyright on price list appears to be ... a reason to call the special agent Mulder of FBI.
