Posted by Chuck on Thursday, August 29, 2002 at 9:46PM :
In Reply to: belt pully on ebay- see txt posted by Matt on Thursday, August 29, 2002 at 4:18PM :
The reason for a private auction is that some folks ( mostly those with money) dont want everybody knowing their business and as the PW community is rather small, word gets around all too quickly what some people have, or paid for something etc.
Your concerns of bid rigging will be answered by carefully thinking through the auction process and the risk to the seller in such a scheme.