Rumor has it that Hans Franke may have mentioned these words:
> > I had to laugh at the seller's comment "...Must Sell. Low Reserve."
>
> >
> http://cgi.ebay.com.au/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=3033449003&category=294
>
>Well, to me this looks more like the usual EBay problem with ',' and '.'
>
>Remember, in Europe, the floating point is a comma. So I assume that
>guy was just entering 10,00 Dollar, which got converted to 10,000.00
>I had this already twice happening and instead of entering 4 Euro 50,
>(4,50) I suddenly had 4500 Euros as bid. This part of ebay is quite
>faulty.
Prolly not in this case, Hans. Notice lower on the page, the guy wants $330
USD just for the *postal insurance* - who'd pay that for a $10 USD computer?
Who's got an extra 10+ kilobucks to start bidding on it to find the
reserve??? :-P ;-)
Prost,
Roger "Merch" Merchberger
--
Roger "Merch" Merchberger -- sysadmin, Iceberg Computers
zmerch_at_30below.com
What do you do when Life gives you lemons,
and you don't *like* lemonade?????????????
Received on Wed Jul 02 2003 - 10:25:00 BST