[peel] Re: peel tapes and paypal

[Sean Carolan]

All,

I'd like to be in on this as well - put me in for the GBP21.00...

-Sean Carolan

On Thu, 10 Jul 2008 21:59:21 +0100, Roger Carruthers wrote
> 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 ebay�s rules.
> I�m no expert, but this paragraph looks like our best hope:
> �It 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.�
> �If not, then I guess it�s plan b ...
> Cheers
> Roger
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> 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@...
> Rockerq
> Dee Dee Remain
> markonnewsgroups@...
> Paul Webster
> philip.gh@...
> saipanda@...
> Keith Muir
> dunelm@...
> David Groves
> i50bar@...
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