Something I'll never understand about sellers on Ebay

There are two types who bug me. The first are the ones where the minimum bid is $X and the Buy It Now price is $X+1. Never made sense to me. I've bought a couple of things like this where I just make the minimum and wait for the auction to expire, usually they have multiple quantities of the item offered.

I saw a specific example of the second one that bugs me just a minute ago. The guy is selling a light meter, he has a Buy It Now of something like $150, which I think is an insane price. Then he has a minimum bid of $50ish with a Reserve Not Met. Now, I can understand the Buy It Now price, but why set a starting auction price below your reserve? Why not be up front about it and set your starting price at your reserve and be done with it?


People are weird (*looks in mirror for case in point*)

Italian Mafia "Boss of Bosses" busted, used a 2000 year old cipher

based on the Caeser cipher. Childishly simple to break because it produces obvious repeating patterns that are visible to the eye. His having no education past the 8th grade could explain him using something so simple.

http://dsc.discovery.com/news/briefs/20060417/mafiaboss_tec.html?source=rss