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Postby dolphinius_rex on Fri Dec 09, 2005 4:59 am

I found this link on the UserFriendly.org forum.... it's pretty darn misleading, but if you look hard enough, you'll see the trick:
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I hope something can be done for the poor fool who won the auction... #-o
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Postby dodecahedron on Fri Dec 09, 2005 5:21 am

personally i think people who do that kind of stuff should be shot.
or better still (the greedy bastards) - a punishment from the ancient world.
tie them up, pull their head back, force their mouth open, and pour molten gold down their throat.
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Postby MediumRare on Fri Dec 09, 2005 7:03 am

I had to track this one to The Register because the link ended up just giving me a search dialog: http://search.ebay.co.uk/#ebayphotohosting.

I think eBay should take action against guys like this! (although your suggestions are certainly worth discussing, but you have to get him first...)

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Postby dodecahedron on Fri Dec 09, 2005 8:48 am

MediumRare wrote:I had to track this one to The Register because the link ended up just giving me a search dialog: http://search.ebay.co.uk/#ebayphotohosting.

maybe eBay did something and removed it (bad publicity?) because when i clicked on dolph's link a few hours ago it did give the auction !
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Postby Ian on Fri Dec 09, 2005 9:15 am

Yeah, eBay yanked it. They're pretty good about that sort of stuff.
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Postby pranav81 on Fri Dec 09, 2005 10:21 am

What was the auction about?


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Postby CowboySlim on Fri Dec 09, 2005 1:31 pm

I gotta' get busy and take a photo of my Jeep and .....................
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Postby dodecahedron on Fri Dec 09, 2005 2:53 pm

pranav81 wrote:What was the auction about?

check out the link in MediumRare's post.
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Postby pranav81 on Sat Dec 10, 2005 12:55 am

Wow.....470£ for a pic of Xbox.......Poor buyer....


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Postby aviationwiz on Mon Dec 12, 2005 12:52 am

Those people should be locked up behind bars...

A friend of mine (an a**hole) put up an Xbox 360 related gmail address on eBay and got something like ~$220 for it, but of course, the buyer didn't pay, thank god.
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