Speaking of eBay

--- Vintage Computer Festival <vcf(a)siconic.com> wrote: This comes to me 2nd hand, so take it for what it's worth.... About 6 months ago I had offered up some fairly mint Sierra games (mostly Kings Quest versions) via eBay. This stuff was still in the shrink wrap. I'd had good luck in the past moving Sierra stuff, so I figured it would fetch a pretty good price. The stuff wound up selling for alot more than I had figured it would though (some titles upwards of $100). I didn't think much about about, chocked it up to good fortune. The buyer paid immediately via PayPal so everything was cool from my end. A few days later I got an email from a guy I had sold some Sierra stuff in the past saying he was in on the bidding for many of these items and was hoping to get them but the prices just got too insane and he had to pass. He asked some questions about the winning buyer. When I asked him why he was so interested, he said that the Sierra community was tracking a known conterfeiter of Sierra merchandise. Apparently they had caught someone dealing in bogus merchandise. This guy claimed that the counterfieter had changed names, addresses (actually moving to CA from Israel at one point) and that he had multiple aliases, addresses, and eBay ids that he was using to obtain product. He also claimed that the guy was using stolen credit card numbers for most of his purchases and had months where he spent upwards of $8000 on stuff. The community suspected that my buyer may have been their counterfeiter and were trying to keep tabs on this person. I'm not sure if my buyer was "the guy" or not (or even if the story is true!), but that's how it was explained to me. rich __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com