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gabemcg

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Dec 27, 2004
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I'm sorry, this is just re-god-damn-diculous. I had to share.

A few years ago, I bought an analog video mixer on eBay for use in a video production company I was running at the time. I paid $125 I believe.

I just pulled it out of my closet after it had been sitting there for about 2 years. I looked up similar items, and saw that they were going for about $180. Thats GREAT! I though, I've got a title generator that I picked up from a teacher for free that works with this mixer (going rate about $25 on eBay). I decided to sell them together, and figured I would get about $200

on sunday I was stoked that the bidding was up to $189

on monday I was thrilled to see it was now up to $225

when I woke up this morning, I was shocked to see it had jumped to $325

and when at the last second the high bidder was outbid and the mixer sold, I almost passed out when I saw the sale price!

$458!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

this is unbelievable, I'm soooo excited!

Dell 2005fpw, here I come!
 

Now you have to collect.
Something about counting eggs before they hatched or something... I dunno. ;)
 
KoolAidKid

KoolAidKid

Golden Member
Apr 29, 2002
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You will now receive the following e-mail (one of many of this type that I have received):

Hi
Thanks for your mail, i appreciate your response .As you already know i
am in Caracas
presently,thats why i did mention shipping and will be paying for it,i will
like the
item delivered to me safe and sound thats why i am paying extra to
the shipping agent to do the shipping personally,so as i said,my
client will issue out a certified bank cashiers check to you of
the tune of $4000 so you will not have any
problems cashing it, this will go a long way in paying for all
charges emanating from this transaction as well as the shipper's,
once you have recieved payment, i endulge you to deduct your selling
price and all other sundry charges and wire the rest to the
shipper who once he recieves it will come to your location to off-set
shippment and also do the paper works like change of ownership
etc, the money wired to the shipper is his service fees,
transportion to and fro and all overhead dues involved in this
transaction. I will
appreciate it if you email me your full contact address, where
the check should be sent to and phone number as well, this is to avoid
any mix up in course of this transaction. I hope you understand what
i mean, if you have further questions feel free, i will like to
close this deal asap, i shall be contacting my clients to discuss
logistics and once i am through i shall let you know when you will
be recieving payment but please get it ready for shippment okay.
Let me know asap if you are still intrested and if everything is
fine with you.
Thanks
 
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Wallydraigle

Banned
Nov 27, 2000
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The high bidder is a time traveler from the year 2036. Your particular video mixer has the ability to combine with a toaster oven from 1983 (which was never advertised by the manufacturer)and clean up post-holocaust radiation. The fate of the world lies locked within your mixer!
 
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Furyline

Golden Member
Nov 1, 2001
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eBay is a great place to sell stuff I think. But from a buyer's perspective, I've had a hard time lately getting good deals on stuff that I used to be able to get for cheap.
 
jpeyton

jpeyton

Moderator in SFF, Notebooks, Pre-Built/Barebones
Moderator
Aug 23, 2003
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Ever watch a bidding war scale out of control?

At the end of the summer, I put a laptop that I bought for $1k on eBay. I all honesty, I did expect to make a few hundred off of it (saw other similar completed auctions end around $1500).

Watched a bidding war between two high-feedback users occur during the last hour that drove the price to $2400. And I convinced the buyer to pay for it via snail mail so I didn't have to fork over a humongous fee to PayPal.

EDIT: And I don't know for the life of me why they bid it so high. A comparable laptop new, direct from the manufacturer would have cost hundreds less. But I guess everyone gets lucky.
 
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Merlyn3D

Platinum Member
Sep 15, 2001
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Originally posted by: KoolAidKid
You will now receive the following e-mail (one of many of this type that I have received):

Hi
Thanks for your mail, i appreciate your response .As you already know i
am in Caracas
presently,thats why i did mention shipping and will be paying for it,i will
like the
item delivered to me safe and sound thats why i am paying extra to
the shipping agent to do the shipping personally,so as i said,my
client will issue out a certified bank cashiers check to you of
the tune of $4000 so you will not have any
problems cashing it, this will go a long way in paying for all
charges emanating from this transaction as well as the shipper's,
once you have recieved payment, i endulge you to deduct your selling
price and all other sundry charges and wire the rest to the
shipper who once he recieves it will come to your location to off-set
shippment and also do the paper works like change of ownership
etc, the money wired to the shipper is his service fees,
transportion to and fro and all overhead dues involved in this
transaction. I will
appreciate it if you email me your full contact address, where
the check should be sent to and phone number as well, this is to avoid
any mix up in course of this transaction. I hope you understand what
i mean, if you have further questions feel free, i will like to
close this deal asap, i shall be contacting my clients to discuss
logistics and once i am through i shall let you know when you will
be recieving payment but please get it ready for shippment okay.
Let me know asap if you are still intrested and if everything is
fine with you.
Thanks
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Hahahaha.....yeah....definitely. I hope you collect payment on this.
 
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whistleclient

Platinum Member
Apr 22, 2001
2,700
1
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Originally posted by: KoolAidKid
You will now receive the following e-mail (one of many of this type that I have received):

Hi
Thanks for your mail, i appreciate your response .As you already know i
am in Caracas
presently,thats why i did mention shipping and will be paying for it,i will
like the
item delivered to me safe and sound thats why i am paying extra to
the shipping agent to do the shipping personally,so as i said,my
client will issue out a certified bank cashiers check to you of
the tune of $4000 so you will not have any
problems cashing it, this will go a long way in paying for all
charges emanating from this transaction as well as the shipper's,
once you have recieved payment, i endulge you to deduct your selling
price and all other sundry charges and wire the rest to the
shipper who once he recieves it will come to your location to off-set
shippment and also do the paper works like change of ownership
etc, the money wired to the shipper is his service fees,
transportion to and fro and all overhead dues involved in this
transaction. I will
appreciate it if you email me your full contact address, where
the check should be sent to and phone number as well, this is to avoid
any mix up in course of this transaction. I hope you understand what
i mean, if you have further questions feel free, i will like to
close this deal asap, i shall be contacting my clients to discuss
logistics and once i am through i shall let you know when you will
be recieving payment but please get it ready for shippment okay.
Let me know asap if you are still intrested and if everything is
fine with you.
Thanks
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i'm confused... how does this scam even work? why do they want your contact info?

i'd imagine that the trick is they get you to send on the "remaining money" to the shipper before the original check bounces, hence they're stealing money from you. but if it's certified... ?

 
rh71

rh71

No Lifer
Aug 28, 2001
52,844
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if you say you stepped foot in the playboy mansion, you could probably sell those socks for hundreds. Ebayers are nutz.
 
Koing

Koing

Elite Member <br> Super Moderator<br> Health and F
Oct 11, 2000
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2
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NICE score :D

What was the winners feedback like?

Koing
 
yukichigai

yukichigai

Diamond Member
Apr 23, 2003
6,404
0
76
Originally posted by: tangent1138
i'm confused... how does this scam even work? why do they want your contact info?

i'd imagine that the trick is they get you to send on the "remaining money" to the shipper before the original check bounces, hence they're stealing money from you. but if it's certified... ?
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They send money, check bounces/is discovered to be invalid, scammers wind up with free money. It may not necessarily screw you over, just the bank, (or can it... someone refresh me on the law relating to these things) but the end result is that the scammers get free money and a free item off of eBay.
 
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