Wow. Is QSWO *THAT* Rare?

[Jason Quick]

This just seems a bit....ridiculous...

[Dave Balderstone]

Sending me to a 4x4 pixel ad tracking gif at qksrv.net? Yeah, I'd say so.

[Jason Quick]

Eh? Worked fine for me.

Jason

[Mark & Juanita]

... snip

Thanks for the link. Eloquently spoken.

Signed,

One who supplies and helps sheepdogs be successful

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[John B]

Worked for me. Sure is that rare in Aust.

[Tina]

shill bidding

Tina

[Doug Miller]

doesn't seem *that* unreasonable to me.

[BillyBob]

When I checked the bid it was $90.99. I calculate 7.25 finished BF, so the price is $12.57 BF and that does not include shipping. That's way higher than what I could get it for in Houston at a local supplier. I know pricing varies around the country (and the world), but I would not expect Illinois to be that much out of line.

Bob

[Duane Bozarth]

What's out of line about a bid? Many items at auction bring far more than they would on the open market--that's one reason people use auctions.

[SonomaProducts.com]

It's actually closer 10bf by typical lumber standards as this would be considered 4/4. Especially figured woods which are planed down enough to see the figure so one would expect 4/4 QSWO to be about 7/8 -13/16 but still calced for bf as if it is an inch thick.

So it's about $10 bf which is nearly twice what I pay in California but I would pay more for more than 8" wide and I supposed the bookmatch adds some too. However, in my experience, QS wood changes figure dramitically with liitle difference in depth so getting book matched pieces that are obviously bookmatched is hard to do. With my rough resawing abilities, once I plane or sand out the ridges the pieces don't match much.

[Larry Jaques]

On Tue, 06 Sep 2005 00:10:07 -0600, the blithe spirit Dave Balderstone clearly indicated:

(Jason, people pay upwards of $35/bf for claro walnut. This works out to about $10/bf. Not too terribly bad until you add shipping. Oak ain't light.)

Try

, auction # 8215485251 , Dave. A pair of

10"x5'x13/16" boards. Nice, but a bit pricy at $90.

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[Chris]

I would be more interested as to why the OP is posting a link that goes through a paid per click advertiser. Seems like a lot more trouble than just posting a link to eBay.

Is the pay-per-click money really that much to you?

[Edwin Pawlowski]

Not a bad price if you want to build a 20 x 60 table with a bookmatched top.,

[Jason Quick]

News to me...I used TinyURL for the reasons below.

I think you'll see why presently. I know nothing of pay-per-click advertisers. I use TinyURL because it's easy and free. The point of the service, like others of its ilk, is to make posting and emailing links like this...

cumbersome. At 127 characters, such links tend to get truncated. The above is what I C&P into the box at .

If you prefer, there's this:

Is the pay-per-click money really that much to you?

I think you owe me an apology, and a broader perspective on life. Even if I

*had* something to gain from using TinyURL, you're bitching about something that's...well, of absolutely no significance.

Jason

[Doug Miller]

across well enough, I think. I imagine that most folks would figure out how to search eBay for the item number.

[Bruce Barnett]

But it does take longer to find it.

[bridger]

the biggest disadvantage to tinyurl and such is that the links they generate do eventually expire, while the usenet post containing it doesn't. so the person who comes along in the sometime future can't know what it was that was being linked to.

but in the case of ebay auctions, heck, they expire too. so it 'aint no big deal to tinyurl a link to an ebay auction.

but in general, anything that will be useful to someone else later should prolly not be tinyurled.

and for most newsreaders, you can beat wordwrap by putting the link inside of a pair of . sort of like

[nailshooter41]

*had* something to gain from using TinyURL> I

[Bruce Barnett]

but in this case the eBay link will expire too - in about 3 months. I don't know the duration of tinyurl.

[BillyBob]

don't be so pedantic. You know what I meant - out of line with established retail prices. That was the OP's point - someone was bidding ignorantly. But that's ebay - very much exemplifies the quote "a sucker born every minute".

Bob