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Topic: Funny Business
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Concerned Ebay Shopper
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posted 01-30-2000 04:17 PM
 
I recently won an auction on Ebay. (Item #244037881) The price was very low
until the last day of the auction. Then it shot up from about $13 to $76 due
to [email protected]. I was curious about this and did a little checking.
The following is a synopsis of my findings:I am 99.9% sure that [email protected] and [email protected] are the same
person. This person sells under these two names. Astros gave me his name.
"Gdan" was a major component of his first and last name. Therefore that thread
is simple to see.
What connected these two sellers together, is that there is a third user ID
which has bid on virtually everything they sell. This is [email protected].
Eddi usually bids high in the last several hours of each auction. Furthermore, they, like myself are AOL users. I programmed them all into my
"Buddies Online" function. (Though I only added the "gdan" ID last night), I
have found that "Astros" and "Eddie" are never online at the same time, but,
they generally logon right after each other. Unfortunately, I already mailed my check before I really studied this.
I only mailed it yesterday, and I am considering paying the $12 charge for a
stop payment. I wish you all the best.
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Bit-Also
unregistered
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posted 01-30-2000 05:06 PM
Had SAME Eddie bidding mE up and THEN he said "it was his Kid messing around and withdrew his winning bid, leaving ME with #2 win on a Piece of photocopied CR*P!! - I **DID** Cancel my check AFTER receiving the CRA*PY Photocopies.. - His name and phone # available from EBAY easily.. |
Dan Lorraine
Member Posts: 373
From: Cranston, R.I.
Registered: Nov 1999
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posted 01-31-2000 11:21 PM
 
That's why I strongly recommend that you stay away from bidding on any autographs featured on EBay .... especially when EBay readily admits that upwards of 90% of them may be fake! You really run the risk of being taken. It's clowns like this that will ultimately destroy the hobby of autograph collecting -- we will eventually get to the point where it will be very difficult to tell a fake from the real McCoy. I would also be very reluctant to spend any real money with an EBay seller with little to no feed back. |
Dan M.
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posted 02-01-2000 05:47 PM
AstrosRus is one of the two that recently put up Roger
Chaffee autopens which were claimed to be authentic signatures. Below is
his response to me after I questioned if his was an autopen. If you
compare ebay items # 243998072 and # 246322412 it's obvious they are both
the same autopen signatures.Dan Mangieri ----------
> From: [email protected]
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: Re: Chaffee signed photo
> Date: Monday, January 24, 2000 2:15 AM
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> Hello Dan,
> It is an authentic signature. I've had this for many years given to me by
> a relative who was connected with the space program. I offer a money back > guarantee if not satisfied...Astrosrus |
Concerend Ebay Shopper
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posted 02-03-2000 12:16 AM
I am happy to report that Ebay just sent me the following message, due to a report I sent them.
The information you have provided has resulted in the suspension of
[email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]; and,
[email protected] for Shill Bidding, Deliberate. You are under no
obligation to complete this transaction as non-registered users are not
permitted to conduct business on eBay. However, this is solely up to
you since you have already sent the money.
Well, I did cancel the check, to the tune of $12. All in all, I had a blast nailing this guy, and that was worth the $12.
However, who knows in what manisfestation he will resurface. All we can do, is share our experiences with each other and make autograph collecting a little better each day. Regards
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