The real sellers should put a watermark on their pix to stop theft.







Too_Many_Tools wrote:
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
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Jon Anderson wrote:
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http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll...ategory=25 27
6

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 He rescinded when I threatened to report him to the CD's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.

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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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