That guy is a marketing genius. A million hits!?
Jim
"Steve Turner" <[email protected]> wrote in message
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In article <[email protected]>, Tom Veatch
<[email protected]> wrote:
> There has got to be something fishy about that bid price - maybe eBay flipped
> out at the number of bids? But US $99,999,999.00 ???
> Come on, there's no way that can be real.
When I first looked at it earlier today it was at $690, which was
realistic. With all the publicity (I've seen the link in about 7
different places including Compuserve's publishing forum) somebody's
decided to screw with the seller, is all.
djb
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Steve Turner <[email protected]> wrote in message news:<[email protected]>...
> Yeah, it was realistic when I first looked at it. If this whole thing
> isn't totally bogus, I think the seller needs to cancel a bunch of those
> outrageous bids and get the auction back in the range of the serious
> bidders.
>
> But after noticing the seller's eBay ID (horseplaypublishing) I'm
> starting to think that he's the one who's pulling the bidding stunts.
>
> Dave Balderstone wrote:
When I first looked at it the bids were up to over $800,000 and there
were a whole bunch of retractions and "administrative" retractions.
The last I looked it was back down to around $15,000 and there were a
lot more "retractions". The seller had implemented an "approved bidder
only" process. He seems quite amused by the attention.
In article <%[email protected]>, "James D. Kountz" <jkountz@(remove this)citlink.net> wrote:
>That guy is a marketing genius. A million hits!?
>
And a hundred bids! Wish my auctions would draw that kind of action.
Wish I could write copy like that, too. (I wonder if there could be a
connection there somewhere.)
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> Missed the link... Anyone still got it?
>
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=4146756343
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Doug Miller wrote:
>In article <%[email protected]>, "James D. Kountz" <jkountz@(remove this)citlink.net> wrote:
>
>
>>That guy is a marketing genius. A million hits!?
>>
>>
>>
>And a hundred bids! Wish my auctions would draw that kind of action.
>
>Wish I could write copy like that, too. (I wonder if there could be a
>connection there somewhere.)
>
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>Regards,
> Doug Miller (alphageek-at-milmac-dot-com)
>
>For a copy of my TrollFilter for NewsProxy/Nfilter,
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A hundred bids ain't hard. It's the top dollar that is. I hope he gets
his money!
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On Wed, 28 Apr 2004 00:39:05 GMT, Steve Turner <[email protected]> wrote:
>http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=4146756343
There has got to be something fishy about that bid price - maybe eBay flipped out at the number of bids? But US $99,999,999.00 ???
Come on, there's no way that can be real.
Tom Veatch
Wichita, KS USA
Yeah, it was realistic when I first looked at it. If this whole thing
isn't totally bogus, I think the seller needs to cancel a bunch of those
outrageous bids and get the auction back in the range of the serious
bidders.
But after noticing the seller's eBay ID (horseplaypublishing) I'm
starting to think that he's the one who's pulling the bidding stunts.
Dave Balderstone wrote:
> In article <[email protected]>, Tom Veatch
> <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>
>>There has got to be something fishy about that bid price - maybe eBay flipped
>>out at the number of bids? But US $99,999,999.00 ???
>>Come on, there's no way that can be real.
>
>
> When I first looked at it earlier today it was at $690, which was
> realistic. With all the publicity (I've seen the link in about 7
> different places including Compuserve's publishing forum) somebody's
> decided to screw with the seller, is all.
>
> djb
>
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