Author: gerold daniels
Date: 07:28:54 03/21/05
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On March 21, 2005 at 06:01:55, Vasik Rajlich wrote: >On March 20, 2005 at 22:48:42, Peter Stayne wrote: > >>Someone on eBay put up a slew of 242, 244 and 246 Opterons (new in box) on eBay >>as No Reserve auctions. There's only 1.5 days left on these auctions and a ton >>of these CPUs up there. If you're looking to build a cheap dual Opteron box, I'm >>sure very few of these auctions will bid up to the actual market value of the >>CPU's, though I could be wrong :) >> >>Just click on this guy's 'items for sale' link and then search for Opteron: >> >>http://feedback.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewFeedback&userid=tccwo&iid=6753289648&frm=284 >> >>Pete > >I've tried this myself - so let me tell you what will happen. > >The bids will remain significantly below value until about 15 minutes before the >end of the auction. > >This will rise to around 75% or so by 1 minute before the end of the auction, >from bidding by some naive amateurs. > >Then, in the last half-minute, it will be taken off the board by a professional, >someone with hundreds of purchases under his account. He'll bid whatever it >takes (I suppose within face value). A few seconds later, all traces of the >entire process will be removed from the system, with no chance for anyone to >access it. The only people who will know what happened are those who were >waiting there specifically at the last second. > >I must confess - after watching this, I felt like a moron for thinking that I >actually might get a new CPU for 75% of the cost. :) > >Vas good morning Vas. thanks for the post. if it sounds to good to be true.... i don,t buy any thing i can,t see and touch before the buy. gerold.
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