>It means that the "dealer" has an item X in their inventory, they see that
someone else on Ebay is selling an equivalent X. The dealer follows the
auction to completion, when complete, the dealer sends email to the second
highest bidder and asks if they would like to purchase the item from them
for the price they offered the seller.
This is a scam? Give it a break guys. If I bid on something and am not the
high bidder I would like a chance to buy. If you don't then don't reply.
Sometimes you can get in a bidding war and end up pay many times the value
of an item, I.E. Imsai or Altec on Ebay, Is it really that different than
making an offer here to someone who has something you want? So who looses if
a seller contacts you and you agree on a fair price? Ebay? Time to face the
facts Ebay, Yahoo, etc., etc. auctions are going to stay a while.
> The above was an explanation of the legitimate practice. The abuse is where
> a third party pretends to be the seller, contacts the second etc. bidders
> and requests payment be sent to a blind PO Box, then skips with the funds
> never sending any goods.
>
> BTW I just sent an inquiry to eBay to see if this is rumor, hoax, or fact.
>
I always check the email address of the person requesting payment. If it is not the same as listed in Ebay, I would get really suspicious.
Steve Robertson - <steverob(a)hotoffice.com>
> There's a certain amount of disagreement on whether PCs are classic or not.
> One camp says that any computer over 10 years old qualifies, another will
> say that since the PC archetecture is at the core of modern PCs that it doesn't.
> Personally I say welcome to the group.
I have no particular interest in 286 and newer machines but, many of those machines do qualify under the 10 year rule so, welcome aboard.
Steve Robertson - <steverob(a)hotoffice.com>
I know this is OT but thought you guys and gals might find it entertaining.
Joe
>
>The answer to the eternal question "Is it better to be a jock or a nerd?", I
>submit the following:
>
>Michael Jordan makes over $300,000 a game. That = $10,000 a minute, at an
>average 30 minutes per game. With $40 million in endorsements, he makes
>$178,100 a day, working or not.
>
>If he sleeps 7 hours a night, he makes $52,000 every night while visions of
>sugarplums dance in his head.
>
>If he goes to see a movie, it'll cost him $7.00, but he'll make $18,550
>while he's there.
>
>If he decides to have a 5 minute egg, he'll make $618 while boiling it.
>
>He makes $7,415/hr more than minimum wage.
>
>He'll make $3,710 while watching each episode of Friends.
>
>If he wanted to save up for a new Acura NSX ($90,000) it would take him a
>whole 12 hours.
>
>If someone were to hand him his salary and endorsement money, they would
>have to do it at the rate of $2.00 every second.
>
>He'll probably pay around $200 for a nice round of golf, but will be
>reimbursed $33,390 for that round.
>
>Assuming he puts the federal maximum of 15% of his income into a tax
>deferred account (401k), he will hit the federal cap of $9500 at 8:30 a.m.
>on January 1st.
>
>If you were given a penny for every 10 dollars he made, you 'd be living
>comfortably at $65,000 a year.
>
>He'll make about $19.60 while watching the 100 meter dash in the Olympics.
>
>He'll make about $15,600 during the Boston Marathon.
>
>While the common person is spending about $20 for a meal in his trendy
>Chicago restaurant, he'll pull in about $5600.
>
>This Year, he'll make more than twice as much as all U.S. past Presidents
>for all of their terms combined.
>
>Amazing isn't it?
>
>-----------------------------------------------------------------
>However, if Jordan saves 100% of his income for the next 250 years, he'll
>still have less than Bill Gates has today.
>
>Game over.
>Nerd wins.
>
Usually I remain aloof from e-bay stuff, as I do not use, or much
like, the system. HOWEVER, this seems an easy way to get scammed by
someone and does not appear to be reasonably detectable until it's
too late.
I have deleted identifying bits in the text to keep from
propagating innocent IDs all over.
Forwarded message follows:
--------------------------------------------------------
Xref: ix.netcom.com rec.radio.swap
I don't normally post on this group, but this is so important that it
needs to get out as quickly as possible before anybody else gets
burned.
Late last month (April) I had put a XXXX repeater up for sale on Ebay.
It was bid on by quite a few different persons. The high bidder on it
didn't contact me for four days and finally sent an email backing out
of the deal. This resulted in a negative feedback being placed which
made it public knowledge that he had back out.
Two days ago I was contacted by two of the higher bidders. Each had
been contacted by a person in Xxxxxx Xxxxx, California wanting to
know if they were still willing to honor their bid on the repeater!
Now this is the very same repeater sitting in my shop as I type this!
Since the email address of the seller in the original auction was
overlooked (you would have to do a search of past auctions to get a
peek at it) this person played the part very well as the owner and
managed to get two money orders sent to him.
The address he uses is a mail drop on XXXXX Rd in Xxxxx Xxxxxx, CA.
If you see this street come up in any dealings with a person out in
that area BEWARE!
PLEASE if you have been or get contacted by anybody on Ebay who wants
to pursue a bid you made on an item, double check his email address
>from the original auction page.
Ebay has been notified and I'm pushing to get the bidding history
either removed or modified to notify all involved that the history has
been accessed.
Thank you for taking the time to read.
Signed XXXXXXXXX
----------------------------------------------------------
End forwarded message
Since we here are dealing in a different line of equipment, I did
not include the alleged miscreant's address or city... but the
algorithm of the scam can be applied anywhere. Of course I realize
that anyone can post anything they like to Usenet, but this has the
Ring of Truth to it.
Caveat Vendor..... just another reason I dislike e-bay. No *real*
auction is timed... the sale is made final when no other bidder
increments the price... so even 'sniping' has a balancing force
against it: the ever-rising price. When there is a known time limit
for the sale to expire, then how can that be fair?
Cheers
John
On May 17, 16:12, David Hoskins wrote:
> Subject: Kermit-11 user manual
> Kermit-11 is a file transfer program that runs under RT-11 and posibly =
> other PDP11 systems such as RSTS, RSX, TSX
It not only runs under those operating systems, but under just about every
system known to man...
--
Pete Peter Turnbull
Dept. of Computer Science
University of York
--- Hans Franke <Hans.Franke(a)mch20.sbs.de> wrote:
> > I did make the T-shirts, one from the photo of a working PDP-8/e and one
> > from the scan of the marketing literature. The text above and below the
> > picture said:
>
> > Wanted: PDP8's
>
> > Report all sightings to classiccmp(a)u.washington.edu
>
> > Several people walked up and started conversations based on seeing two of
> > us wandering around with a PDP on our backs. Nobody had any spares. :-(
>
> Say, what about a licenced copy of your T ?
I don't know about getting into _that_ business. It was OK to make a couple
of shirts from transfer paper, but it's quite time consuming to print out
the sheet, trim the edges, iron the shirt and backing pillowcase, then apply
the image. If I owned the image, I'd consider it, but the image that I liked
the best was the photo of someone's personal machine; they own the copyright,
but were nice enough to let me use the image for my own purposes.
-ethan
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As usual, contact the poster rather than myself:
On Sun, 16 May 1999 16:28:45 -0700, in comp.sys.dec.micro
cryorunner(a)aol.com (Rhett James Barnes) wrote:
>I have a couple of DEC Rainbow 100's here that I want to get rid of. I
>feel kind of guilty just throwing them away, as I have a pretty good
>collection of origial software with manuals, and one printer, and I
>figured that some collector might enjoy having a fairly complete system.
>I know it's not a very popular computer, but I figured that there has to
>be someone out there. Anyone have any ideas about how to rescue these
>things from the garbage can?
>-Rhett
>cryorunner(a)aol.com
>
>PS. Sorry for posting about a 1982 on this 1999 group, but it's been hard
>to find an appropriate outlet.
> I did make the T-shirts, one from the photo of a working PDP-8/e and one
> from the scan of the marketing literature. The text above and below the
> picture said:
> Wanted: PDP8's
> Report all sightings to classiccmp(a)u.washington.edu
> Several people walked up and started conversations based on seeing two of
> us wandering around with a PDP on our backs. Nobody had any spares. :-(
Say, what about a licenced copy of your T ?
Gruss
H.
--
Traue keinem Menschen der 5 Tage blutet und immer noch nicht tod ist.
As the new owner of an abandoned IBM product (Thinkpad Power Series 850,
1995, not on topic, though highly advanced at the time and now abandoned)
I was wondering if anybody had any favourite IBM remarketers they turned
to when in need of IBM unobtanium, or were chummy with any warehouse
managers...
I'm willing to throw money at this one, it's too close to being Really
Cool to not. (:
For those unfamiliar with the Thinkpad Power Series line, they are IBM's
brief foray into the RS/6000 laptop market. The 850 sports a 100 MHz PPC
603e (not speedy) and a surprising array of multimedia capabilities
(including NTSC video I/O), and runs AIX up to 4.1.5, or 4.2.something if
one feels lucky.
I'd appreciate any leads anybody could pass on.
ok
r.
