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Originally Posted by ctownboy
Jake,
Yes, a person who had already purchased that stock would certainly be happy if a person went on CNBC to tout it and it apreciated in value because of the recommendation. But that is not what happened with the Ruth card and you (and others) don't seem to understand this. The Ruth card didn't sell and THEN the auction was outed, the Ruth card was still up for grabs when the info came out about it.
This would be like YOU doing research on a stock and putting in a market order tonight and going to bed feeling happy about the potential profit you were about to make because of the effort YOU had put in and THEN finding out tomorrow morning that you DIDN'T get the stock at the low price you thought you were going to get it at because at 9:15 A.M., an analyst went on CNBC and touted it as a raving buy because of whatever reason.
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I actually was talking about if the stock was on someone's watch list and not yet bought. All info for public stocks are just that "public". You and I have the same access to the same information. Obviously fees are charged for expert opinions and analysis, but the basis is still there.
The same applies with eBay, this isn't some arbitrary estate sale in Wichita Kansas. This is a listing on a website that everyone and anyone can lookup. Every listing on this website can be found by anyone. If someone finds a listing people might be interestead in it is his privilege to report, keep it to himself and/or tell a select few.
If I had the option to have
A) all listings placed well, described well and scanned well.
B) all listing placed poorly, described poorly and scanned poorly.
I would choose A every time. I would prefer every person to have an equal opportunity to purchase every item.