Freeman PC Museum

[Teo Zenios]

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From: "vrs" <vrs at msn.com>
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Sent: Friday, September 23, 2005 11:07 AM
Subject: Re: Freeman PC Museum


> > >>Why are people doing this?
> > >>
> > >>http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=8220987149
> > >
> > >
> > > Maybe they forgot to set the $50,000 reserve?  Maybe they just don't
> know
> > > how
> > > to run an ePay auction.
> >
> > It's neither.  Those people aren't the owners of the Freeman PC Museum
> > and are attempting to perpetrate fraud, which is why Sellam was asking,
> > "Why are people doing this?"
>
> Then I'd expect them to be NARU, instead of having voluntarily canceled
> their
> own auction.
>
> (NARU: "not a registered user", after eBay boots them for fraud.)
>
> I'd agree that pretending to be the Freeman PC Museum, putting up an
> auction,
> then canceling it, is really dumb.  (All the "asking for trouble", with
none
> of the possible upside.)
>
>     Vince
>

I was thinking the guy wanted to buy the rarer items (in the real Freeman
auction) and dump the rest here in the US to avoid having to deal with the
whole lot. After looking at both lists briefly they appear to be the same
(so much for that theory).