Tom, You paid an attorney $2000 bucks just to ship your own Oscar back to the Academy? Man, that's easily the worst shipping-charge story I've ever heard!
I still don't see how giving it back to Academy to stick away in a box somewhere instead of selling it to a fan who would have treasured it as you have is anything like "doing the right thing", but what's done is done. But listen, since you have the email address of the Academy's attorney, will you please forward the following information to him regarding fraudulent auction of the same Oscar over and over again that keeps happening on eBay? The Academy should know about this (as it is something that really is damaging the prestige of the Oscar) and pressure eBay to stop it: Besides the fact that this seller has auctioned the *same* Oscar three separate times in the past two months, there's plenty of additional weird stuff going on: 1) The first time the Oscar went for $3,500 with only two bidders. My guess is both bids either shills or non-serious bidders. The "winner" of this first auction, mame79, has left no feedback on the transaction, although it's been almost 2 months. The seller has left no feedback on mame79 either. http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=7591982096 2) The second time it had 4 bidders, some with real feedback so maybe not all shills, popping the final selling price to over $6,500. But, again, the "winner" of this auction, imfuming18he, has left no feedback on the transaction, although it's been 6 weeks. And again, the seller has left no feed back on imfuming18he either. http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=7594764769 3) Then we have this latest time around, where only two people bid again, both of them with only (1) feedback, and the price is now driven up to over $7,000. This auction ended Apr 15... but just two days later, on Apr 17, the supposed "winner" is already leaving negative feedback saying he never received the item? (and it was a pretty mild comment, considering he had just been ripped off for over $7,000). http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=7609514585 Finally, the seller, allieOo, has only (23) feedbacks and ALL of them were where from where he bought stuff from others. This appears to be the first time he has acted as a seller. -- JR Visit the MoPo Mailing List Web Site at www.filmfan.com ___________________________________________________________________ How to UNSUBSCRIBE from the MoPo Mailing List Send a message addressed to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] In the BODY of your message type: SIGNOFF MOPO-L The author of this message is solely responsible for its content.
