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Subject: Re: message to seller of the fake Tasc R30 auction ...

Author: Christopher Morgan

Date: 20:10:21 10/25/05

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On October 25, 2005 at 14:32:45, Richard Sutherland wrote:

>On October 25, 2005 at 00:10:25, Dann Corbit wrote:
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>>Since the price is $1000, why not get the FBI involved for an interstate fraud
>>case?
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>>It seems a more permanent solution than hazing.
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>None of you should be doing anything of the sort, let alone contacting bidders.
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>1. You have an assumption that the auction is fake, but no proof. You may well
>be maligning a completely honest seller, who's sole mistake was using pictures
>previously used.
>
>2. None of you work for eBay, who's responsibility it is to investigate this
>auction and determine if they'll let it continue or not.
>
>So, contact eBay, inform them of your suspicions and then step back. You are not
>the eBay police.

Richard,

You're 100% correct.  I have yet to see any post in this thread with any form of
attempted proof of a phoney auction, except that the picture may be of someone
else's machine.  That does NOT make a phoney auction.

Christopher



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