[meteorite-list] EBay analysis (preliminary)

From: Mark Miconi <mam602_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Thu Apr 22 10:28:37 2004
Message-ID: <011301c39feb$18897b60$d7e16a44_at_ph.cox.net>

John,
You are comparing apples to oranges. If someone is so concerned that others
might now what they are buying on ebay they should not buy on ebay.

Hearing about the sordid details of a divorce or a DUI is hardly the same as
Ebay data.

Mark


----- Original Message -----
From: John Gwilliam <jkg_at_theriver.com>
To: Jamie Stephens <j.stephens_at_morphism.com>; Mark Ferguson
<mafer_at_imagineopals.com>
Cc: meteoritelist <Meteorite-list_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Sent: Thursday, October 30, 2003 8:29 PM
Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] EBay analysis (preliminary)


> List Members,
> I've been sitting back quietly watching this thread get over-baked over
the
> past few days and finally decided I'd step in a make a comment.
>
> In his remarks, Jamie talks about his potential "right" to publish data
> that is extracted from publicly available documents. Personally, I
believe
> that with this "right" comes a lot of responsibility.
>
> For example, did you know that if you've ever been a party in a divorce,
> arrested and charged with a crime, or been to Tax Court, the written
> records of those proceedings are public information? That is, unless the
> judge in the case sealed the records, which is rarely done. That means
> that I, or someone else, could access all court records involving
Meteorite
> List members throughout the United States and publish those findings. Now
> wouldn't that be lovely? We'd know who the drunk drivers and the wife
> beaters were and we could sit in our chairs and snicker about all the
nasty
> accusations that are part of every divorce trial. No thanks, I don't need
> to see it...even if it is publicly available information. You see, there
> is no beneficial value in doing so.
>
>
> Rather, it sounds like a good way to loose a bunch of friends to me.
>
> I don't see any real value to compiling information about Ebay sellers and
> purchasers either. Sure, you can figure out what's been selling well and
> what hasn't, and you can find out who has been spending the most money on
> meteorites lately...so what? Do you contact these buyers and offer to
sell
> them more meteorites? I'm pretty sure that would be a violation of Ebay
> rules.
>
> How many list members are forty-hour-a-week "Meteorite Market Analists"
anyway?
>
> Someone else mentioned something about "getting a life." I vote for that.
>
> Best to all...but tired of the thread,
>
> John
>
>
>
>
>
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