RE: there's one born every minute

2003-12-21 Thread Cotty
On 21/12/03, [EMAIL PROTECTED] disgorged: Astounding!!! So, I initially thought, after reading your post, Len, well, the other 25 bidders were just as stupid. Then I went back and looked at the bidding history. The auction started at $1. One dollar! Then the thought occurred to me: The

RE: there's one born every minute

2003-12-21 Thread frank theriault
Hmph. BIN of $10? So, the seller is a sleaze, but only a minor one. The bidders, especially the buyer who bid Three Hundred Whatever US Dollars really got what they deserved. Even ~I'm~ not ~that~ stupid. Idiots... -frank The optimist thinks this is the best of all possible worlds. The

Re: there's one born every minute

2003-12-20 Thread Jon Glass
on 12/19/03 9:09 PM, Len Paris at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Holy shirt! That must be the stupidest person still able to use eBay. To pay that much just to get the URL. I think this sale is a fake... Look at the seller's feedback. 28, but only the last is a sale. I think this guy is setting up

re: there's one born every minute

2003-12-20 Thread Tom Reese
at least he didn't charge for shipping and handling. He could have added another $10 to type out the url and send it. Tom Reese

Re: there's one born every minute

2003-12-20 Thread Joseph Tainter
I can't belive I just saw that!!! Can that be enforced? According to feedback, the idiot buyer went and paid for it. Joe

Re: there's one born every minute

2003-12-20 Thread Joseph Tainter
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there's one born every minute

2003-12-19 Thread William Robb
P. T. Barnum was right. http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItemitem=2973510727category=48539 William Robb

Re: there's one born every minute

2003-12-19 Thread Bill Owens
Hey Wheatfield, $981.00 total so far. He's saved $18.00 over retail! Bill - Original Message - From: William Robb [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Pentax Discuss [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, December 19, 2003 2:32 PM Subject: there's one born every minute P. T. Barnum was right. http

Re: there's one born every minute

2003-12-19 Thread Bob Walkden
Hi, some minutes it's rather more than one, apparently. -- Cheers, Bob Friday, December 19, 2003, 7:32:18 PM, you wrote: P. T. Barnum was right. http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItemitem=2973510727category=48539 William Robb

Re: there's one born every minute

2003-12-19 Thread Robert Leigh Woerner
It is still a scam and the guy should be shut down. It is like someone selling a camera box. Regards, Robert

RE: there's one born every minute

2003-12-19 Thread Amita Guha
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, December 19, 2003 2:56 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: there's one born every minute It is still a scam and the guy should be shut down. It is like someone selling a camera box. Regards, Robert

RE: there's one born every minute

2003-12-19 Thread Len Paris
: there's one born every minute P. T. Barnum was right. http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItemitem=2973510727; category=48539 William Robb

RE: there's one born every minute

2003-12-19 Thread Len Paris
He probably could have googled for the URL directly. Len * There's no place like 127.0.0.1 -Original Message- From: Bill Owens [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, December 19, 2003 1:40 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: there's one born every minute Hey Wheatfield

Re: there's one born every minute

2003-12-19 Thread Shel Belinkoff
A scam? He's selling information and he made it perfectly clear what he's doing. And, if the buyer can really purchase the camera for the noted price, with reasonable shipping, it would be possible to buy a few for resale and start turning a profit. Buying a camera or lens box can be a very

Re: there's one born every minute

2003-12-19 Thread Shel Belinkoff
Well, the seller did say that with the information the buyer could turn a profit. You've seen that quite clearly ... Amita Guha wrote: Dunno if it's technically a scam; he says right up front that you're not getting an actual Rebel. If I were that kind of jerk, I'd put up a bunch of

RE: there's one born every minute

2003-12-19 Thread Len Paris
cameras for sale at lots of discount stores. Len * There's no place like 127.0.0.1 -Original Message- From: Bob Walkden [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, December 19, 2003 1:52 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: there's one born every minute Hi, some minutes it's

RE: there's one born every minute

2003-12-19 Thread Len Paris
Collectors buy camera boxes. Len * There's no place like 127.0.0.1 -Original Message- From: Robert Leigh Woerner [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, December 19, 2003 1:56 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: there's one born every minute It is still a scam

Re: there's one born every minute

2003-12-19 Thread Shel Belinkoff
http://www.streetprices.com/Electronics/Digital_Cameras/6.3_Megapixels/SP1197239.html?sortdetail=sortdetailbylowprice%2F Len Paris wrote: He probably could have googled for the URL directly. Len * There's no place like 127.0.0.1

RE: there's one born every minute

2003-12-19 Thread Amita Guha
Nate found a thread about this auction on DPreview: http://forums.dpreview.com/forums/read.asp?forum=1031message=7000753 Someone posted a link to the actual website, which is ExpressCameras.com, and others said that it is an awful dealer that tries to make a profit on things that should be

RE: there's one born every minute

2003-12-19 Thread Bob Rapp
If the buyer was a little more astute, he could have saved himself heap of money with a BIN http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItemcategory=48539item=2973781218 Bob -Original Message- From: Len Paris [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Holy shirt! That must be the stupidest person still