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Re: Cassens and Plath Sextant
From: Mike Boersma
Date: 2004 Mar 21, 18:06 -0500
From: Mike Boersma
Date: 2004 Mar 21, 18:06 -0500
Ebay is the world of irrational bidding. If you are selling something,
irrationally high bidding is good. Ebay gets a percentage of every sale
and obviously a high sale price is good for ebay (and for their shareholders).
Caveat emptor.
Michael Boersma
Gary Harkins wrote:
I just watched a Cassens and Plath sextant on ebay during the last few minutes of frenzied bidding. This sextant is 5 years old, the owner didn't know much about it (at least he couldn't tell me if it had the double prism lens), and went for $846.00. What would make otherwise sane people (presumably) pay 2/3 of what they could buy new for a sextant that has no REAL guarantees? Gary Harkins C400 #140 "Cygnus"
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