Date: Sat, 24 Apr 2004 18:40:49 -0400 From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Duo-DoubleTake!!!
I went there:
http://offer.ebay.com/ws3/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewBids&item=3D4125029959
and got this:
Sorry, the item 3 does not appear to be a valid number on eBay.com. Please go back and try >again.
So I don't get it. What was it?
To view this item, a Newer Tech UltraDock going for what looks like a prodigious amount of money, go to eBay (www.ebay.com), click on search, then input the item number as a search term. In this case, it's 4125029959. The reason the links above do not work is because some extraneous characters have gotten inserted into the link. (This sometimes happens in the cut-and-paste process.)
By the way, a high bid like this depends on there being two folks willing to bid up to that point. Granted, in the case of a dishonest seller, one bidder might be a shill who bids up as a way of getting the "real" bidder to go higher. But without a bidder willing to bid up and _pay_, the seller gains little. So there may be some dishonesty involved, but without a bidder who wants an Ultradock so bad she or he is willing to pay a ton of money, you would not have a result like the auction Craig brought to our attention.
I sold an Ultradock a couple of years ago for more money than I had bought it for. (It sold for about $90 if I recall.) The Ultradock is increasingly rare on eBay. It just may be that some rich person who has plenty of money to burn has been turned on to Duos. In that case, I have boxes full of Duos, Duo parts and Duo accessories I would be willing to part with!
I am not trying to defend the auction we have been talking about, or suggest that nothing fishy is going on. But it does seem entirely possible to me that someone might want to pay that kind of money for a rare but immensely useful Duo accessory.
Best,
Robert amateur Mac-Head
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