(copy of ) Apple I on ebay

From: evan at snarc.net I traded some email tonight with the seller. His replies were interesting so I asked if I could share them here on cctalk. He said yes. ---------------- In the first message he said (exact quote, unedited): Well, I didn't want people getting something they don't want or expect, thats not what I'm about. BTW after talking to my friend locally... The whole story and truth came out about this computer! So, the guy (a long close freind of mine ebay account MacEffects bought this from the seller listed recently, and sold to a guy in a city about 20 miles away... I love auctions, went to what I thought was an Estate auction... But it was a house full of scams... And it was being offered as the real deal, and advertised in local paper, sevral bidders, I won it for $3950 (a low price I thought, but I didn't know of this Obtonic computer), and figured I'd make some money being that I have no idea of these computers, or collect (serious) anyways, I thought I'd sell it... Turns out, I got screwed, he won't take it back and the cops are 'investigating' him for other things similar to it, anyways my buddy in town Mark bought it for $1500 off me (he lost a little) but, its better then nothing, he plans to sell it as well. I lost an additional $160 on eBay listings>. Forum thing. Are you a member there? Anyways, thanks for helping me out I appricate it, I got 30 e-mails in 6 hours, so I pulled it, the 4 'experts' are wrong... pfft, happens, it fooled ME! Then in a second message he said (again, unedited): Yeah, its odd... The net makes it a small world, rarity that I ended up with something a good friend and fellow "noob" collector, both had it, and not directly. But life happens, anyways, yeah if you could just let them no, I didn't try to scam anyone, as I pulled the auction within 1.5 days of being listed, I don't want anyone to get screwed, it happened to me, but it sucks, and I don't want someone else to go though it. Anyway if you'd let them know that'd be nice, if not thats fine too. Just don't want a bad rep. Thanks Again. ------------------ So there ya'll have it. According to this seller, he got fooled. At first he heard from some self-proclaimed "Apple experts" (probably just fanboys) insisting it is a REAL unit. Then he got a bunch of emails from we crazy cctalk'ers who scared him into reality. :) -----Original Message----- From: Evan Koblentz [mailto:evan at snarc.net] Sent: Saturday, June 14, 2008 11:01 PM To: 'General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts' Subject: RE: (copy of ) Apple I on ebay off. It appears, at least in my opinion, that the seller was merely uninformed and/or in denial because HE got duped -- not trying to scam anyone. Or at least that's what I want to believe ...