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Posted By: Bruce Moreland

It's not a big deal. People test the waters all the time. It's not against eBay policy. The "time wasting" aspect of it is trivial.

I'm sure that many of us have bid on auctions where the reserve was not met, even though the amount we bid was very reasonable for the item in question. I've had this happened, and I was a little tweaked, but not enough that I'd write a letter to my congressman.

I'm sure that many of us have bid on premium auctions where a hidden reserve wasn't met.

None of this is a big deal. You are on this guy's case bacause of who he is, not because he's done anything particularly awful here. This started out as, "Dr. Koos is bring a hypocrite and trying to stick someone with a bad card!", and is now "Dr. Koos is wasting people's time with an auction with an impossible reserve!" The same tone is there, even though the charge has reduced to nothingness.

Let's see:

- He hasn't broken any eBay rules.
- He hasn't broken any laws.
- He hasn't shipped anyone garbage.
- He hasn't given a buyer a hard time.

Aren't there plenty of cases where people have done any or even all of the above, and aren't those the cases we should be outraged about?

bruce