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Ebay listing that made me chuckle

Amethyst1 said:
In all fairness, I could have included a screenshot of and link to the English eBay site for the listing. But I was so floored that I forgot about that. 😳
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I like to take the initiative to learn or to use a reference tool wherever possible! It’s unreasonable to expect that all screen caps posted on MR forums be anglicized, even as the generally accepted conversational language on here is English.

(Also, I think it’s kind of nifty, even refreshing to see visual screen examples of OS X or whatever in one’s first/daily use language(s).) 🙂
 
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B S Magnet said:
You missed the part of the auction which showed the lot as having sold, or verkauft, on 8 October.

As I said before: an easy way to launder money in plain sight.
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It's sold until it is relisted. I have a hard time believing that this is money laundering given the unfeasible amounts involved. It would attract far too much attention.

I bought a new Magic Trackpad on eBay, which did involve money laundering. The trackpad sold in an auction at £10 below the RRP and nobody else was offering discounts at the time. The package arrived directly from Amazon with a "gift" packing slip. Amazon was selling at full RRP at the time. Clearly, somebody was buying Amazon vouchers with dodgy money and laundering through eBay, leaving Amazon with a problem. I sent details to the Amazon fraud dept. but haven't heard since.
 
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weckart said:
It's sold until it is relisted. I have a hard time believing that this is money laundering given the unfeasible amounts involved.
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I suppose, though at this point, I’m sort of impelled to keep a tab on this item’s bidding history [Fig. 1]; a tab open on the winning bidder’s page [Fig. 2]; and a tab on the seller’s currently listed items page (to see whether it gets re-listed and/or an untoward change in their feedback given to others).

item bidding history (a 1-day auction)
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Figure 1.


winning bidder’s bid history page
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Figure 2.

It would attract far too much attention.
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It certainly attracted our attention! 🙂

In any case, this may very well have been one of those newbie mistakes of the winning bidder setting a ridiculously high max bid for proxy-bidding (like €50K), and another bidder, also a newbie mistake, tossing in a ridiculously high max bid (like €40K), resulting in the outcome above in Fig 1. It’s tough to know much more, given how this was a 1-day private auction.

By the same token, one would like to believe that when a bidder throws down such a high max bid, one actually has the means to back that max bid — should the final sale price come to it. I’d love to see other auctions (on, well, pretty much anything) which share a bidding pattern much like the above, which closed without a hitch and positive, mutual feedback followed.

weckart said:
I bought a new Magic Trackpad on eBay, which did involve money laundering. The trackpad sold in an auction at £10 below the RRP and nobody else was offering discounts at the time. The package arrived directly from Amazon with a "gift" packing slip. Amazon was selling at full RRP at the time. Clearly, somebody was buying Amazon vouchers with dodgy money and laundering through eBay, leaving Amazon with a problem. I sent details to the Amazon fraud dept. but haven't heard since.
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To lean against the idiom, there’s more than one way to skin a cat!
 
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B S Magnet said:
By the same token, one would like to believe that when a bidder throws down such a high max bid, one actually has the means to back that max bid — should the final sale price come to it. I’d love to see other auctions (on, well, pretty much anything) which share a bidding pattern much like the above, which closed without a hitch and positive, mutual feedback followed.
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The 8-Bit Guy did a video on his experience selling MacBooks (as the MacBook guy) on Ebay. One of the things he mentioned was his switch from auctions to buy it now because he was having a problem with auction buyers not following through. The issue was they got caught up in the bidding process, bid the item up to more than it was worth, and then refused to follow through upon their realization of what they had done.
 
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Amethyst1 said:
In all fairness, it says so right in the title 😀
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Yes. Being optimistic, I read the title assuming “In Box”. But no, it is literally just a scrappy old brown box.

The seller could have at least made an effort to write up some fascinating story behind the origins of the box or some trivia making it an historical heirloom of genuine Apple-y greatness. 😎
 
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