Chris why don't you post here all the items your bidding
on and what your maximum bid is

The members can then decide for themselves if they want
to outbid you or not

That's what BIN's are for.

Auctions are for seeking out bargains. The seller nowadays often opens the
auction with the lowest price that he is willing to let the item go for.
Too many bidders will push the price beyond what is reasonable. I once
saw an empty cardboard box go for £35.

The seller can also set a reserve for the lowest price he is willing
to accept.

Pity we can't smell it I love the smell of
hot bit-mac!

It's been posted many times before

Edit: Just noticed the BBC only posted that story
today

Nice to know that they are on the ball with news of
items that happened years ago

I first bookmarked that site on the
25th November 2004 SEVEN Years ago....
Now it makes the News

It's known as good manners, gentlemanly conduct etc.
If you had a group of close friends and met regularly
at the pub... going on shoots etc. and you found that
one of them had come across a rare item after he had been
looking for it for years on ebay and in classifieds and
that he had placed a bid and was hoping to pick up a
bargain...... would you go home and try to out bid him!

You probably would... but I don't think you would have
many friends afterwards

Ebay is supposed to be a place where bargains can be found.
It's just not fair to post a link for a rare item that someone
might have spent years looking for. Because of the publicity
they receive on forums some items have already been pushed
out of the reach of most people such as Kenko TC's.

If an item is rare the buyer would probably import it as
long as it is bought at a reasonable price especially if
it's a rare lens.

As an example take the Pentax FA* 85mm f/1.4.... rare as hens
teeth and people do search for them.... see this thread link
One did actually slip though the radar recently and the bidder
would have had a bargain at £585 had the buyer not put on a high
reserve. link

There were 26 bidders... had that sale been posted on here and
the US forum the bidders would have shot up and the price would
have been over £1,000 which has the knock on effect of putting
ALL future sales over £1,000

The price of the Sigma 100-300mm has already been pushed sky high
because of it being mentioned on forums and it doesn't need
inflating anymore.

No, BIN prices can't be pushed up... so it's a case of grab it before someone else does

It's not allowed on the majority of forums..... pushes up
prices for everybody

Really like No: 10 which looks like a bUggati

I used to accidentally fire off shots like No:12 when
I was loading a new film

According to DXO:::::

The cheap Canon EF 50mm f/1.8 II, that costs $100,
can be better than a Carl Zeiss Planar T50 f/1.4
that costs $ 725.

http://karanarora.posterous.com/zeiss-lenses-nikon-and-canon-beat-them

Blah!!!!