On Mon, 2004-12-27 at 21:21 -0500, chris wrote:
I'm not
usually the paranoid type, but the seller has been a member for
all of eight hours, has a baker's dozen high-priced items with
"reasonable" starting and buy bids all ending within minutes of each
other. . .
As much as I'd like a Lisa 1, this doesn't feel right.
Uh, yeah, and none of his stuff has photos. You would think, if you plan
to get 4 grand for a computer that clearly condition makes a difference
in the price, you would post some photos. Ditto for some of his other
items.
My immediate thought too. Plus they write like a 5 year old. Interesting
how they say about the Twiggy drives being a bit flakey, as though there
is a real machine behind all of this - it seems like an out of character
comment with the rest of the post.
I suppose it's the sort of thing I'd want to see personally before
bidding (if I were the type to use ebay, which I'm not) and if that
wasn't possible then just walk away.
cheers
J.