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Originally Posted by Kamakiri
I disagree. That's like saying if I bid on a set on eBay, I call dibs and nobody else can bid. It's all about who wants it more.
At the moment, I have no sets of this kind, and I really want one. If I wanted it bad enough, I'd have driven to Philly to get it and offered the guy $100 more than you paid. But I don't, so you got it.
If it wasn't for this post, chances are you would have never known about it.
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I thought, apparently mistakenly, that once someone here indicated that they were going after a particular set, it was a courtesy we all paid each other to not take it out from under them, and in the case of e-bay, to not drive the bid up on them. That is how it works in the circles I travel in. Since I am aware that all bets are off with the folks here, I will keep that in mind next time I see a set I want.
As far as me not knowing about it if it wasn't posted here:
I live in Philadelphia, check all of the usual places for sale ads, and have a few spots to look for stuff that I check in at that none of you know about. I do come up with some pretty fantastic stuff too, I just don't post it here. In fact, I don't post much here at all. So, please don't have such an inflated view of this site and delude yourself into believeing that I "wouldn't have known about it otherwise." How very smug of you.
To miniman82...
I couldn't have acted any faster. I had made contact with the seller, and was waiting for his first offer to either follow through our duck out. He ducked out. While I was waiting in line, someone tried to cut me out. I got the set anyhow. Fortunately, the seller has a higher ethical standard than many on this board.
Maybe this is why I mostly lurk around here.