Hi,

You can bet that most if not all the bids are seller provided....or
should we say were...the sale has been cancelled by the "seller". It
would seem our "seller" reads the Usenet lists and/or Yahoo groups
when he is not busy ripping off websites.

Check out the bid history when you get the time. When I first saw this
ad last night, it had 14 bids and the cancelled bid history now shows
a smaller number and in a very weird ordering. Any idea if this is an
artifact of Ebay or something more interesting.

The comment of more "sharp cookies selling Girl Scout cookies" is
correct from my observations. It used to be that someone like Babin
was the exception but now one must be rather cautious as to who you
are dealing with since the sleaze in question are getting more
sophisticated.

Let's be careful out there...

TMT


Jeff Wisnia wrote in message ...
Jon Anderson wrote:
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http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=2573870182&category=25 276

This ends tomorrow and may be shut down before then, so take a quick
peek.

I like it!

Jon

There's more than one sharp cookie selling Girl Scouts on eBay, but so far I've
made out OK. I often e-mail sellers with questions before bidding and make my
decision to bid according to the kind of answers I receive. Only has two problems
in maybe 100 purchases over the last few years:

1. An ivory carving which turned out to be "Mandarin Ivory" which is a loaded
plastic material which looks pretty good, but won't fool an ivory collector. I
believe the seller made an innocent mistake as she took it back and paid me a full
refund immediately. BTW the stuff's easily identified; A red hot sewing pin will
melt its way right into an obscure spot on the piece, it won't do anything when
pressed against real ivory.

2. A CD containing a medical reference book. The seller displayed a photo of the
actual CD, but sent me a labeless home burned copy which was wouldn't even run
because it was missing several important files. The swine refused to take it back,
and actually said to me "How do I know you didn't make a copy of it and are trying
to rip me off?" He rescinded when I threatened to report him to the CD's
publisher, his local police department, and the AG in his state. I got my money
back along with a nasty threatening letter saying the only reason he was giving me
a refund is because he didn't want to go to jail again.

I'm amazed that anyone intelligent enough to want to own a CNC mill would dare to
bid on one from a seller with no feedback who'd just signed up with eBay a few
days before. I wonder if the 14 "bids" showing when I looked at it are phonys too.

--

Jeff Wisnia (W1BSV + Brass Rat '57 EE)

"If you can smile when things are going wrong, you've thought of someone to blame
it on."


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