4 Jun
2003
4 Jun
'03
11:40 a.m.
Hi
I find it hard to believe that he'll come up with
1/2 mil to pay for this if he is willing to write poetry
for $1. Other than the fact that the seller has a
reasonable record, the sale sure seems funny.
Most other auctions that sell high value items require
the buyers to post a bond. It doesn't sound like this
guy could post a parking ticket bond.
Still, if this was truly one of the original prototypes,
it is in some sense priceless. I don't know if the reason
given for removing the transmitter is valid. My undestanding
was that the circuit was quite simple and didn't require
significant secret circuits. It would be more likely that,
like our own NASA, even prototype items were often used
in real missions to save cost.
Dwight
From: "Frank McConnell"
<fmc(a)reanimators.org>
Ethan Dicks <erd_6502(a)yahoo.com> wrote:
--- Kevin Handy <kth(a)srv.net> wrote:
The current high bidder, urban-motion, has another auction up with
this in the description:
I am a 27 year old father with a newborn daughter and bills to
pay. I work one full time and one part time job totalling 40-60
hours a week and I love to write in my spare time. To help
supplement our income I sell a variety of things on Ebay and look
for creative ways to honestly make a buck. So, I thought that I
could write original poetry for you and also increase your
feedback rating at the same time. By purchasing this auction, I
will write you an original poem and leave you wonderful positive
feedback.
The poem will be completely 100% original and will be emailed to
you within 24 hours of payment. Feedback will be left as soon as I
receive payment.
Payment is accepted through paypal only using any major credit
card.
Thanks for looking and god bless!!!!!
I am not making this up, you can see it yourself at:
<http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=2932949148>
-Frank McConnell Ethan Dicks wrote:
The current bid is $500,700 (way above the
buy-it-now price it
originally had), so your bid of 25K is far short of the goal.
Holy Sh*t, Batman! It was $25K the last time I looked (4 bids or
so).
That is beyond absurd. 
4 Jun
4 Jun
2:45 p.m.
--- "Dwight K. Elvey" <dwightk.elvey(a)amd.com> wrote:
Hi
I find it hard to believe that he'll come up with
1/2 mil to pay for this if he is willing to write poetry
for $1.
Maybe his eBay account got hijacked. Seriously.
-ethan
Most other auctions that sell high value items
require
the buyers to post a bond. It doesn't sound like this
guy could post a parking ticket bond.
I also doubt the sellers expected the price to go that high: they
offer a 30-day money-back guarantee... Who wants to give back 5E+05
dollars?
Still, if this was truly one of the original
prototypes,
it is in some sense priceless. I don't know if the reason
given for removing the transmitter is valid. My undestanding
was that the circuit was quite simple and didn't require
significant secret circuits. It would be more likely that,
like our own NASA, even prototype items were often used
in real missions to save cost.
It's also possible that it was never intended to be flight-worthy.
Look at the Enterprise.
-ethan
4:35 p.m.
Walked in in the middle of the conversation...
We talking about the Sputnik on epay right now? If so, there is some
question of its authenticity.... (haven't seen the auction, just reading
the newspapers.) As the curator of the NASM said (they have one)
"Provenance is everything."
$66mil? Yeah, right.....
Jim
4:48 p.m.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Jim" <jrasite(a)eoni.com>
To: <cctalk(a)classiccmp.org>
Sent: Thursday, June 05, 2003 2:00 PM
Subject: Re: Slightly OT
Walked in in the middle of the conversation...
We talking about the Sputnik on epay right now? If so, there is some
question of its authenticity.... (haven't seen the auction, just reading
the newspapers.) As the curator of the NASM said (they have one)
"Provenance is everything."
$66mil? Yeah, right.....
Current bid US $90,000,500.00
Who's that silly?
Cheers
Geoff in Oz
5:30 p.m.
Geoff Roberts wrote:
Current bid US $90,000,500.00
Who's that silly?
Cheers
Geoff in Oz
Not anymore! It seems it has more bid cancellations than bids!! All
the cancellations are due to "Administrative Cancellation", except one
that says "entered wrong bid amount".
It seems to be going down progressively..... I see 26100.00 now.
Chad Fernandez
Michigan, USA
6:03 p.m.
And Sputnik just went invalid as well..... As I was watching.
jim
Chad Fernandez wrote:
Geoff Roberts wrote:
Current bid US $90,000,500.00
Who's that silly?
Cheers
Geoff in Oz
Not anymore! It seems it has more bid cancellations than bids!! All
the cancellations are due to "Administrative Cancellation", except one
that says "entered wrong bid amount".
It seems to be going down progressively..... I see 26100.00 now.
Chad Fernandez
Michigan, USA
.
6:05 p.m.
Chad Fernandez wrote:
Not anymore! It seems it has more bid cancellations
than bids!! All
the cancellations are due to "Administrative Cancellation", except one
that says "entered wrong bid amount".
It seems to be going down progressively..... I see 26100.00 now.
Looks like the whole auction has gone invalid now!
Chad Fernandez
Michigan, USA
5 p.m.
Dwight K. Elvey wrote:
Hi
I find it hard to believe that he'll come up with
1/2 mil to pay for this if he is willing to write poetry
for $1.
I got an invalid item when trying to view the "poetry auction", so maybe
Ebay has started looking into this auction, bidders included.
Chad Fernandez
Michigan, USA
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