Re: [Leica] private e-mail Re: Slightly OT- More eBay idiocy!

["Joe Codispoti" <joecodi@thegrid.net>]

You will note that both top bidders are from Japan. I am sure they know
something we don't.
I wonder how much the Japanese industrialist paid for the old, battered, and
rusted pick-up truck that was involved in the accident where James Dean
died?
J Codispoti


From: D Khong <dkhong@pacific.net.sg>
To: <leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us>
Sent: Tuesday, August 31, 1999 11:34 PM
Subject: Re: [Leica] private e-mail Re: Slightly OT- More eBay idiocy!


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> >
> >If you want to see the strangest one yet check out the completed sale at
> >e-bay on item no. 151736533, a used, battered, key lock (lost I think),
25
> >year old Halliburton Aluminum Case about 12inches by 9 inches, where the
> >last three bidders raised it from $75, about 2 to 4 times its value, to
$510!
> >
> >I wonder whether the seller will get a check?
> >
> >Bob Rosenberg
> >
>
> With $510, who needs to bid for some 25 year old Halliburton case unless
> there is some sentimental value attached to it (but then having 3 persons
> with such same sentimental values seem unlikely)?  I'd go for the latest
> new one in the market.
>
> I have heard about people being "hooked" on Ebay..... and being "hooked"
> can be viewed as a mental illness.
>
> I have bidded a couple of times but lost out to others.  I can tell you
> that the frustrations can make one really MAD enough to win at least once
> by outbidding the hell out of the rest by making an offer that will
impress
> the world!!  On the other hand there are people who have the self control
> not to go beyond the limits of reality and rationality.
>
> Dan K.
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than
>  for five rich children to provide for one poor father' - A Dutch proverb.
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