"The Mark-8 was an Intel 8008" was Re: I thought the Univac was expensive

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Date: Thu Jul 3 12:07:01 2003

Hello Dwight and all,


Apparently eBay must have felt the auctions might be fraudulent
also. They just terminated every one of them.


Best Regards







At 09:26 AM 7/3/03 -0700, you wrote:
>Hi
> Not all that use other pictures are trying to be
>dishonest. I came across one case where I recognized
>the picture of the item I'd bid on. I immediately
>wrote the fellow and asked what was up. I said
>that he didn't have a picture but he couldn't see any
>difference between the one he had and the picture.
>He was right, when I got the board, it was in
>great shape. Still, I told him that if you use another's
>picture, you should make a statement, such as "Looks
>identical to this unit" or something.
>Dwight
>
>
> >From: "Wayne M. Smith" <wmsmith_at_earthlink.net>
> >
> >>> It is an interesting batch of sales. If you look at their
> >>> other listings
> >>> there is an Intel iPSC, a MASPAR and what I think is an IBM
> >>> 5100 listed with the a
> >>> strange title "The Mark-8 was an Intel 8008" listed in "antiques."
> >>>
> >>>
> >http://cgi.ebay.com.au/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&category=12&item=254275
> >7186
> >>
> >> I, too, am inclined that the seller has a problem with decimals. I
> >think they
> >> are very unfamiliar with eBay, having just registered. The ads are in
> >the
> >> wrong categories. The descriptions are not what would sell a piece of
> >equipment.
> >> Also seller in Japan, listed on the Australian eBay site with shipping
> >in
> >> misquoted US Dollars. I suspect a Newbie or possibly fraudulent (low
> >probability
> >> but worth being very careful)
> >>
> >> Does anyone recognize the pictures as being from somewhere else on the
> >WEB.
> >> Many Japanese are collectors so it could be an original collection.
> >The high
> >> valuations lead me to think it might be a collector.
> >
> >This crook has posted a picture from the Smithsonian exhibit, swiped
> >from a UC Davis site:
> >
> >http://wwwcsif.cs.ucdavis.edu/~csclub/museum/items/merk_8_ibm_5100.html
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