[peel] Re: peel tapes and paypal

[Roger Carruthers]

Have a good read of this page before making any offers:
http://pages.ebay.co.uk/help/policies/rfe-spam-non-ebay-sale.html
The seller has a lot of good feedback, so he/she might be wary of blotting
his copybook by acting outside of ebay¹s rules.
I¹m no expert, but this paragraph looks like our best hope:
³It is acceptable for sellers to end a listing early to sell an item at the
current bid price to the high bidder. Bidders are permitted to contact
sellers with requests to end a listing early; however, sellers are under no
obligation to do so.²
 If not, then I guess it¹s plan b ...
Cheers
Roger
 


On 10/07/2008 21:34, "markbursa@..." <markbursa@...> wrote:

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> OK, currently up to 21 contributors - at £21 each that's £441 so far.
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> We have two options:
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> Approach the seller (ideally through Ken Garner) and offer a £420 donation (or
> however much we get) to charity in return for the tapes, with the intention of
> offering them to the BBC (if they want them) after we've digitised them
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> Snipe the auction at the death for the maximum amount in the kitty, and either
> return the surplus to the donors or keep it as a "fighting fund" for any
> future similar instance.
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> Personally I'd prefer the direct approach - would depend on Ken though, as I
> suspect the would prefer the tapes to go to the right place.
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> Donors so far:
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> Mark Bursa
> Ken Garner
> Thebarguest
> Roger Carruthers
> Richard Fewster
> Guyanthonybrown
> DBarrell
> Kev Beech
> Robert Hall
> grafpoo@...
> postcriptxyz@....uk
> Rockerq
> Dee Dee Remain
> markonnewsgroups@...
> Paul Webster
> philip.gh@...
> saipanda@...
> Keith Muir
> dunelm@...t
> David Groves
> i50bar@...
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