Re: Check out this one

["Jason Whorton" <Please Reply To Newsgroup>]

The part that will take the cake is if after the auction it says,
"winner has paid by PayPal".  I am not sure if they show that for
non-winner/sellers or not, but if they did, that would be weird.
    I'd love to have the boxes.  I am a nerd like that.

Thanks,
Jason Whorton

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"Paul Grammens" <grammens@svn.net> wrote in message
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"Sheldon Simms" <sheldonsimms@yahoo.com> wrote in message
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> On Tue, 02 Sep 2003 12:27:26 -0500, Exegete wrote:
> > Bill Garber wrote:
> >> This looks like a good deal to me. NOT!!!!
> >>
>
>>>http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=2750997930&categor
y=17
1
> >>
> > I've exchanged emails with the seller as follows:
> >
> > How much gold in that system?
> > Seeing as a //e normally goes for less than $25, you'd better have
some
> > hummdinger stuff with it.
> <snip>
> > Oh well, let's see how many bids you get, or not!
>
> The bidding history on this item now is pretty odd. I already
mentioned
> that the first bidder seemed unlikely to have much of a real interest
> in Apple IIs, now another bidder has shown up who spends all of
his/her
> time on Ebay buying and selling (mostly selling) little pins,
trinkets,
> and costume jewelry. The two bidders now have the price at $315
although
> there are plenty of similar systems for much, much less - Including a
> souped up IIe with Zip Chip currently at $10. There's something weird
> going on with this auction.
>

You're very astute, Sheldon.  That's really doing your homework!
-Paul