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$69,000 Powerbook??

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:
 
Hemingray said:
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
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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...
 
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.
 
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.
 
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.
 
It's even higher now

Now says 95M!!! I don't understand why ebay would let this continue.
 
what a waste of time LOL

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
 
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
 
Mr. Anderson said:
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
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Apparently you looked too hard. Try this -

Main eBay page > help > Security Center > Report a Problem
 
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.
 
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.
 
yellow said:
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.
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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:
 
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!
 
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!)?
 
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.
 
leftbanke7 said:
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.
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Exactly - who's clever now? :cool:
 
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