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I think it's a pretty good idea. I voted yes.
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You're entitled to your own opinion but how many times have you see a $20 dollar item go for $45 just because at the auction end the flurry of buying activity drove the final price up. Sure you're smart, so you may have gotten out at $20, but the others stayed in and bought high and pretty soon, the $20 dollar is now normally considered to be a $30 item (because others have paid more for it in the past)
Now, if you want to see a $1000 AR15 sell for $1500, then go to an auction system. Not just the buyers lose on falsely inflated pricing, Hey.. the Seller wins right?...that is until the seller takes his profits and goes to buy an AR, and then wonders why the prices are so high.
Auctions have a place in comerce, a place where sellers make it good and occasionally a buyer gets a good deal - only because it's an item that no one else wants.
To the credit of some folks on this board, I've seen members offer free A2 handguards for the cost of postage. That kind of community spirit will dissapear if the EE goes auction.