Re: Insane eBay

[dog_cow@macgui.com (D Finnigan)]

schmidtd wrote:
> On Feb 22, 11:09�am, Rich Hare <Rich11...@gmail.com> wrote:
>> On 2/22/2010 10:51 AM, sfahey wrote:
>>
>>
>>
>> > This is a whopper...
>>
>> >http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=280467888631
>>
>> > Sean Fahey
>> >www.a2central.com
>> > bbs.a2central.com
>>
>> I'll sell mine for $20 less!
>>
>> Rich
>>
>> (Lest there be any confusion; I agree with Sean. �That is close to
three
>> times the going price.)
> 
> There's been some discussion about questionability on this auction
> elsewhere:
> http://www.applefritter.com/node/24598
>

http://www.applefritter.com/node/24598 wrote:
>Good evening all.
>
>I wanted to report a suspicious seller on ebay.
>
>His name is CAPKNIGHT and he specifically sells Apple II items.
>
At the moment he has several items for sale including an Applied 
>Engineering Accelerator for a IIgs. The kicker is that there
> is a shill (r***r) jacking up the prices on the cards.
>
(r***r) has forced the price up of this particular card to 
>$405.00 within the last six hours. He has 62 bid 
>retractions in the last six months and 30% of the 
>time he bids on CAPKNIGHT's items.
>
>All of this has been reported to the eBay authorities, 
>but I wanted to make sure that all the "Fritter Critters" are aware.
>
>Good Night and be watchful.
>
>Steven Smiling
>

Yeah, there is definitely a lot of "funny business" that goes on around the
vintage Apple section of eBay. I for one don't buy anything from eBay, and
likely won't ever. I do watch for pricing. There seems to be a lot of
sharking that goes around. I hope that no one who's getting into Apple II
for the first time is buying his machine from an eBay listing. :-0