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[quote="db5"]Well, I'm one of those soft scientists who has little respect form my peers and have little knowledge of the hard sciences]
I consider that eye rolling to be a near substitute for tongue in cheek which I am sure you would than realize the reference to patina was less than totally serious.

Other than that, I consider your 'comments' to be pediculous.


A while back there was an interior decorating tv 'show' where different teams of 'designers' competed against other teams with the losing team being sent home etc. An episode I was thinking about with the patina reference was one in which one of the team members forgot to 'refurbish' a rusty old iron stand. Since it was on the 'inventory list' it had to be included in the 'entry'. Upon being asked why that rusty old thing was not 'beautified', he replied he did not want to destroy the 'patina'. Imagine my astonishment that the judges actually bought that crap!

skou wrote:http://phoenix.craigslist.org/nph/tls/4227198518.html

steve

I like how the heading says $50 but the description says first $75 takes it…It should be more like "I'll give $75 to the first person who will haul it away"

JPG40504 wrote:IIUC if it only 'costs' if it sells.

I'm not sure how the rules have changed over time as it's been a long time since I sold anything on E-Bay and they've made lots of changes since then (such as the BIN option), but once upon a time, you paid a % fee based on the highest bid, or in the case of no bid (or bids not exceeding the reserve price), you paid a % fee based on your starting bid…so there was incentive to have a low starting bid, but also a risk it may end up selling for peanuts if no one else bids. I can't remember how reserve auctions that don't meet the reserve are handled. So, if you started with a starting bid of $100 and no one bid on the item, at least in the old days you paid a fee based on that $100 starting bid…but you also were able to realist the item free for a certain # of times until it sold at no additional cost, other than any additional fees if the ultimate selling bid was higher. Things may have changed but I think that's how it used to work.