It did have an opening bid price of $150 if I remember correctly (I could be wrong though as I only saw it once before you got it), with a Buy It Now for $300.
This one was kind of on the fence- if someone had placed a bid of $150, the Buy It Now would have been gone, and the auction would have lasted the full duration of it's timeframe (7 days). In this hypothetical case, that someone who placed a bid for less than the Buy It Now, would have kissed his bid goodbye once the link was posted here.
And Springer- you know very well that we still go nuts if someone merely mentions an active auction without posting a link. The SPAS cage on gunbroker was the last example.
By the way the entire rule includes posting links to auctions that are scams as a warning are ok, and links to ebay "stores" which sell runs of items are ok too.
I saw those two Pulsemeters and didn't place a bid on either of them as they had both gone beyond what I was willing to pay (especially the incorrect model that was a bit beat up). Nobody mentioned them here- I can only imagine how high they would have gone if they had been mentioned.
Here's another example- that GRiDCASE1 that I recently won only had three bids. A member here told me afterward that he planned on bidding on it, but forgot about it. He would have outbid me so I got lucky with the price I got it for. Again I can only imagine how high it would have gone (well beyond what I could afford), if someone here had just mentioned "Hey there's a Gridcase on ebay right now".
The point of this rule (to me at least) is to protect the little guy who doesn't have money to burn. He/she finally finds a deal on an item (sometimes because it didn't include a keyword in the description or the keyword was spelled incorrectly- keeping it out of a common search).
So like Joe said, they watch the auction for days (maybe having already place the highest bid they can afford, which isn't much), only to have their chances ruined by someone who alerts well over 350 potential bidders by posting it here.
If every one of us here were millionares this wouldn't matter (and would probably make a lot of sellers happy
).
Another thing we talked about once was not bidding against fellow members of the board. Some people expressed a willingness to not bid on an auction in which they recongnized the ebay ID of a fellow Legacy member bidding on it.
Again- I'm not sure I agree with that either as it is the point of having the "no live auctions link rule". As much as it might boil my blood being outbid by a fellow member, the bottom line is that All is Fair in Love and eBay War.
If you want to help- the best way is to do it quietly with a PM.
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