I thought the Univac was expensive

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Date: Wed Jul 2 10:40:01 2003

> Who's got an extra 10+ kilobucks to start bidding on it to find the
reserve???


It doesn't have a reserve on it.







At 11:18 AM 7/2/03 -0400, you wrote:
>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 - 10:40:01 BST

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