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<p>[QUOTE="Troodon, post: 359413, member: 4626"]Way I see it, just as it's the buyer's responsibility to know what he's buying, it's also the seller's responsibility to know what he's selling. Some people just don't know or care about the varieties... do you fee guilty about cherrypicking a given variety from a huge lot?</p><p><br /></p><p>If your conscience bothers you that much, feel free to pay more, nobody's stopping you. I personally wouldn't see it as taking unfair advantage of the seller... I'm not lying to him about what it's worth, he's telling me what he thinks it's worth, to him... and if it's worth more to me than to him, so be it. If someone is selling something for more than you think it's worth, do you bother telling them then? No, you just don't buy it. I don't see how it's any more or less ethical the other way around.</p><p><br /></p><p>If it's an extreme case, like someone selling a rare genuine coin for a dollar, perhaps then I'd feel the need to speak up, if I wanted to buy it for close to what it's worth... else it's not really my business. Variety values though are so subjective... a given variety is worth more to those with a signficant interest in it than to those who don't know or care about variety attribution... in that case I'd just stay out of it.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Troodon, post: 359413, member: 4626"]Way I see it, just as it's the buyer's responsibility to know what he's buying, it's also the seller's responsibility to know what he's selling. Some people just don't know or care about the varieties... do you fee guilty about cherrypicking a given variety from a huge lot? If your conscience bothers you that much, feel free to pay more, nobody's stopping you. I personally wouldn't see it as taking unfair advantage of the seller... I'm not lying to him about what it's worth, he's telling me what he thinks it's worth, to him... and if it's worth more to me than to him, so be it. If someone is selling something for more than you think it's worth, do you bother telling them then? No, you just don't buy it. I don't see how it's any more or less ethical the other way around. If it's an extreme case, like someone selling a rare genuine coin for a dollar, perhaps then I'd feel the need to speak up, if I wanted to buy it for close to what it's worth... else it's not really my business. Variety values though are so subjective... a given variety is worth more to those with a signficant interest in it than to those who don't know or care about variety attribution... in that case I'd just stay out of it.[/QUOTE]
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