He really wanted to sell it and he was hoping you were going to buy it...
Something about counting chickens before they are hatched, I believe.
Brian P. Huber
> I see a lens I want, the seller says he won't accept bids
> unless the bidder
> has more than 10 feedbacks. As I only have 5 feedbacks I
> asked him how I
> prove to him I am a good boy. He replied that my asking was
> a good sign,
> that some idiot was trying to sabotage him, that I could bid.
> I didn't bid, didn't really feel like it, or perhaps I just
> wanted to wait
> until the end. No one else is bidding on his lens. After
> some days I get
> an email saying: "You don't bid, why not. Are you the asshole who is
> bugging me?"
> I've told him it's none of his business whether I bid or not
> and that I am
> not the asshole who is bugging him.
>
> So, have I missed out on something? Or is he what he thinks
> I am? Machiel
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