He won't even get a bid. And if it did get a bid I guarantee you it would a
fraudulent one.
However, there is apparently an insurance scam that auction houses have to
deal with apparently where a person sells something at auction to a shill
(fake bidder) for some outrageous amount of money, then ships or somehow
"loses" the item and collects the fully insured value. (less deductible of
course).
Some more interesting Ebay madness is that some nice VAX systems are going
quite cheaply. There is a 4000/300 on Ebay for less than $20, the CPU alone
is worth that, and if it has memory too... A 4000/200 in the nice BA215
case sold recently for $60. So you see the market works as you would
expect, these things come out of the woodwork and the prices on ebay
reflect the increased availability.
--Chuck
At 02:40 PM 8/3/01 -0500, you wrote:
>Is it just me? What are the odds this guy gets it?
>
>http://cgi.ebay.com/aw-cgi/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=1260881309
Received on Fri Aug 03 2001 - 15:14:04 BST