Carl. I hope you can make the show. Hope to visit with you. Table # 45. Most of us CC>CC'ers are decent fellas and gals; a couple are dentists but we can overlook that flaw. <g>

Whatever the "tone" of your rhetoric, I pretty much agree with you but want to raise one point. I and a few others--Jim Reilly, for example, do actively get involved when we find an eBay dealer misdescribing chips. I confine my contacts to the seller only and do not contact the buyers. Others, however, will contact both. If I find a serious fraud--not just misrepresentation--and if the dealer will not correct it, I then go to eBay direct, which I have had to do once.

But the question I wanted to ask the board is the result of posts indicating it is improper to contact the back up bidders and offer chips to them at the knock down price. I haven't done that and won't do it. But I have had persons contact me and offer the chip I missed out on at the high bid price. In one case with a chip I really wanted, I was grateful for the opportunity to get the chip. First, however, I contacted the eBay dealer and asked if he had others at the bid price. When he said he didn't, I bought the chip. I do not understand how it would be unethical for a stranger to the auction to approach interested offerors after the auction ended and offer the chips for sale at the knock down price. Nor do I see how it in any way negatively impacts on the original seller.

I'm not asking you to be the sole responder as others on the thread who are eBay dealers may feel the same way. But I would appreciate some feed back.