$69,000 Powerbook??

[Spock]

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&category=14909&item=5114217869&rd=1

And it aint even gold.

[FuzzyBallz]

But but but, it's got free shipping!

Love it when people bid crazy final price on auctions trying to out bid the competition. There was one where some guy bid millions on some crap.

[Mr. Anderson]

it's sad when things like this happen on ebay, ruins it for everyone.

Bleh,

D

[King Cobra]

People are actually bidding on it...
Some of those people have been confirmed as seriously braindead. http://www.thetechpub.com/phpBB2/images/smiles/new_shocked.gif

[Horrortaxi]

Could there be a mistake somewhere? There are only about a half dozen bids and the first one is only $243. I don' know how you get from $243 to $69,000 in a few bids...unless the seller had a couple friends set very high max bids to catch a sucker.

[mikeyredk]

or it could just be a money laundering scheme...

[yellow]

or it could just be a money laundering scheme...

Interesting. There are some bid retractions on this item too...

[Counterfit]

He lists the machine as having an infared port... :confused:

[friarbayliff]

I would bet it's either a really strage glitch, or a mask for some sort of scam or subversive activity. I wonder what eBay will have to say about this one...

[michaelrjohnson]

I would bet it's either a really strage glitch, or a mask for some sort of scam or subversive activity. I wonder what eBay will have to say about this one...

I *highly* doubt that this auction will end in the sale of a PowerBook. :)

[yellow]

I *highly* doubt that this auction will end in the sale of a PowerBook. :)

Hehehe. Do they take checks? ;)

[ChrisFromCanada]

Every bidder except for one has 0 feedback so that might tell you something. :rolleyes:

[Mr. Anderson]

Every bidder except for one has 0 feedback so that might tell you something. :rolleyes:

does that surprise you?

although the money laundering thing is interesting.....lets see, some guy has to pay $69k for his illegal purchase and they're using a PowerBook as the smoke screen? :eek:

Right!

D

[yellow]

and they're using a PowerBook as the smoke screen?

It's made of heroin.

[stevehaslip]

I've seen everyone of the images used in the description before. The seller has just used photos from other bids, i doubt that there is a photo of the actual item there. (i have some pics saved of ibooks and these just so happen to look very similar to the ones i have, not wait they are the same!) :eek:

what are the chances! :eek:

heroin screen, must be!

[Horrortaxi]

Money laundering is a very interesting theory. I'd never thought of that before but it could work--at least as long as you don't do something blatant like sell a $1600 computer for 70 grand. Greed is always what gets people caught.

[FoxyKaye]

It's made of heroin.

This really made me laugh... Although, having a new PowerBook would be a lot like heroin, so I guess there's a little bit of truth in everything.

The folks at eBay are pretty saavy - I had a friend who worked there, and she was telling me that there's dozens of folks whose job it is to look for banned items and sham auctions. I'd be surprised if this auction wasn't pulled by eBay.

[wide]

The site no longer works for me...error 404. But the eBay main page works.

EDIT: My mistake it does work

[Hemingray]

Check out the seller's ID... "Not a registered user".

Sincerely,

O.W.A.Giveaway

[Java]

I have an old PB 3400 sitting in the garage. Wonder if I could get 10k for that?

Hehe :)

[King Cobra]

Who are you asking? See, that's why it should end with a period. http://www.thetechpub.com/phpBB2/images/smiles/icon_eek.gif

Oh, and don't forget to sell your left armpit as a free bonus. http://www.thetechpub.com/phpBB2/images/smiles/icon_eek.gif

[iBook]

It's now $300,000 at 4:30 p.m. EDT. What a bizarre thing.

Per eBay rules, "To place a bid of US $15,000.00 or more, you'll need to provide a valid credit card or complete the ID Verify process ($5)." Odd that someone would go through so much trouble, but I guess the publicity of the stunt is the point.

Is there a point? :confused:

[keysersoze]

It's now $300,000 at 4:30 p.m. EDT. What a bizarre thing.

Per eBay rules, "To place a bid of US $15,000.00 or more, you'll need to provide a valid credit card or complete the ID Verify process ($5)." Odd that someone would go through so much trouble, but I guess the publicity of the stunt is the point.

Is there a point? :confused:

It's now $1,000,100.00.

What a joke.

[~Shard~]

It's now $1,000,100.00.

What a joke.

Try $2.5M... good old e-bay, always good for a laugh...

[Hemingray]

I'm soooo tempted to bid like $50 million or something, just for fun. Since the seller isn't registered, this auction is basically null and void. No one can hold you to it. But I respect my eBay ID too much to jeopardize it. :p

[~Shard~]

Nope, 5.5 million now. Kay, I'm not even going to watch this anymore...

Since there appears to be so many stupid people out there on e-bay, I think maybe what I should do is put up an auction for NOTHING, explicity state that I am selling NOTHING, and see how much money I can bring in. I'll even advertise free shipping! :cool:

[~Shard~]

I'm soooo tempted to bid like $50 million or something, just for fun. Since the seller isn't registered, this auction is basically null and void. No one can hold you to it. But I respect my eBay ID too much to jeopardize it. :p

Yah, it's not worth it - trust me, you don't want to be associated with the idiots who are participating in this farce of an auction...

[windowsblowsass]

Try $2.5M... good old e-bay, always good for a laugh...

try 10 million :eek:

[King Cobra]

Heh, I remember being told once that someone put up an 1831 half dollar hawaiian gold coin on eBay for $10 million. I don't think it sold.

My point is: Well, I'm not sure, I'm trying to spare time until the bid is raised again. I'm guessing it'll be raised to $12 million.

[Elan0204]

Stuff like this is why I try to stay away from eBay and buy\sell stuff here on MacRumors. Of course there are scammers everywhere, but eBay seems to be where the congregate since it is the easiest place to scam people. eBay doesn't do a good enough job trying to stop these scams.

[~Shard~]

I don't know why e-bay doesn't just halt the auction and administer some bannings....

[liketom]

you wanna see his iMac 17" for $1,000,100.00 ????

now that is sad

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&category=4603&item=5114217880

[Elan0204]

I don't understand how someone that is not a registered user can have an auction. You would think that cancelling your registration while you have an auction posted would result in its immediate termination.

[Horrortaxi]

Wow, Macs really are overpriced after all.

[hcuar]

Now says 95M!!! I don't understand why ebay would let this continue.

[FYA]

The PB is now @ $95,000,100.00

The iMac $2,000,100.00

anybody interested in a 12"PB ?
a real bargain @ $25,000,001.99

[Mr. Anderson]

what I want to know is why is it so hard to report problems to ebay? I just did a quick look around to see if it was possible to let them know this wasn't exactly kosher and I couldn't find a link.....stupid if you ask me.

D

[FuzzyBallz]

what I want to know is why is it so hard to report problems to ebay? I just did a quick look around to see if it was possible to let them know this wasn't exactly kosher and I couldn't find a link.....stupid if you ask me.

D

Apparently you looked too hard. Try this -

Main eBay page > help > Security Center > Report a Problem

[yellow]

Off Topic slight eBay rant.

I once bought an album from a guy on half.com right before eBay bought them. When it arrived I went to try and give this cat feedback, it took me to the eBay pages, click on the leave feedback button, and then I'm informed that there's no such transaction. A month and a half of emailing back and forth with eBay support (explaining the situation over and over, and still getting "click on the leave feedback button" DUH!), and finally I had to just give up.

[wide]

this person is just creating random accounts to make people bid more on his item

[~Shard~]

this person is just creating random accounts to make people bid more on his item

You know you have too much time on your hands when... :rolleyes:

[BrianKonarsMac]

You know you have too much time on your hands when... :rolleyes: you actually read these posts. i want the last 5 minutes of my life back.

[Counterfit]

you actually read these posts. i want the last 5 minutes of my life back. 5 minutes? Speedy :D

[stevehaslip]

apparently the portability of the superb 12" powerbook is now worth $95,000,100.00 i ***** you not.

Edit: it just sold for that figure?!

[Music-Producer]

Its obvious that no one bothers to check out the bidders..99% of them have zero feedback and have recently registered..and the location is France. The seller is also from France and has also recently registered. He is just registering with different user ids and bidding on his listing..(shill bidding) Just plain stupid that he would bid it to such an insane price. He was just begging for suspension.

Some ebay safety guidelines:

1. Check the feedback - and make sure there are a lot of +ve feedbacks from buyers. Sure, a seller could have 1000 +ve feedbacks..but if they're all from other sellers for items like a downloadable e-book or something..you know something's not right

2. Pay with your credit card or paypal..I always stick to paypal..NEVER pay with a check or money order.

[MacFan26]

A month and a half of emailing back and forth with eBay support (explaining the situation over and over, and still getting "click on the leave feedback button" DUH!), and finally I had to just give up.
That happened to me too, althought I didn't try to email ebay about it, I just told the guy that I bought something from I would have given him positive feedback, had it let me. And by they way, your avatar scares me! :)

What is the purpose of doing something like this? Is it just to get people like us talking about it? If so, that's kind of disturbing, yet I guess the guy is successful since here we are, talking about it. :rolleyes:

[gallagb]

final end price: US $95,000,100.00
so- how much does astenie77 owe in E-bay fees?
prolly a lot.
what does e-bay do if u don't pay up?

his iMac ended @ US $2,000,100.00
@ least the fees will be lower on that one!

[yellow]

This is weird. Just some punk kids fiddling with eBay? Something illegal? A "developmentally disabled" person's first flirt witht he internet (man he sure does love those eBay commercials on TV!)?

[leftbanke7]

I bet eBay doesn't take it off for one reason: They'll get 2.5% of the final bid. So if was a bunch of dinks trying to scam some people, it'll end up costing them a pretty penny.

[~Shard~]

I bet eBay doesn't take it off for one reason: They'll get 2.5% of the final bid. So if was a bunch of dinks trying to scam some people, it'll end up costing them a pretty penny.

Exactly - who's clever now? :cool:

[Elan0204]

I bet eBay doesn't take it off for one reason: They'll get 2.5% of the final bid. So if was a bunch of dinks trying to scam some people, it'll end up costing them a pretty penny.

I don't think the probabilty of eBay seeing a penny of that money is very high. I wonder if they will even end up collecting the listing fee for auction.

[yellow]

Prosecution might be sweet! Send Johnny Juniorhigh a message!

[MacFan26]

They'll get 2.5% of the final bid.
What qualifies something for them to get 2.5% of the bid? Is it only on items that are over a certain price?