Bid: £20

[Alan Ford]

>> we are loathed to end the auction early based on previous
>> experioence of irate potential bidders. What do you suggest?


I suggest pointing out to irate potential bidders that ultimately they'll be 
able to download the contents of the tapes for free.


Count me in for �20


Alan



----- Original Message ----- 
From: ken garner
To: peel@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Saturday, July 12, 2008 5:18 PM
Subject: [peel] Re: John Peel tapes on Ebay



this just in from the seller to me:

"Hi Ken,
We have only just recieved your messages.
Most tapes that I tested were perfectly audible but some have not been 
played back since
recorded.
As you can see from the advert we have already selected a charity based on 
the premise
that this is a recognised BBC charity and therefore the sale of the tapes 
would not
constitute an offence. It seems as though it would be most appropriate for 
the tapes to be
with the John Peel Group but we are loathed to end the auction early based 
on previous
experioence of irate potential bidders. What do you suggest.
Regards
Railway rocks. "

I think it might be best if I reply saying ok, fair do's, you carry on the 
auction as normal,
one of us will just watch the bidding, join in, and try to hope we get the 
collection, all the
best.

what do folks think?

as someone said, he's doing the decent thing but the wants to make some cash 
for the
charity, fair enough...

k

--- In peel@yahoogroups.com, "roger3905" <roger.carruthers@...> wrote:
>
> Given that the seller has 100% positive feedback for 600 transactions, I 
> think he/she
> probably deserves the benefit of the doubt.
> Like most things online, it's all too easy to jump to conclusions or get 
> into
> misunderstandings. I've had eBayers who appear to be not communicating, 
> only to find
out
> later that their replies had been diverted by my ISP's spam filter (you 
> have checked that,
> haven't you Ken ?).
> Cheers
> Roger
>



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