Author: Uri Blass
Date: 01:41:33 10/26/05
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On October 26, 2005 at 03:13:33, Clive Munro wrote: >> >>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 > >Very seldom in a court of law is there a cut and dry case with irrefutable >evidence. Usually the evidence produced points towards the defendant’s guilt. >The more circumstantial evidence there is the more likely the case will be >proofed. > >In this case we have a Computer sold by me on Ebay. > >After the sale someone copied the second chance offer screen and offered it to >losing bidders. I was contacted by a couple of them and alerted. Ebay was >informed. > >Then my auction appeared again this time with all my pictures and description >(an Ebay violation) the seller was a newbie with no feedback. When contacted the >seller said they were selling on behalf of a friend in London so couldn’t >provide any new pictures. I reported it and Ebay removed the auction. > >Some weeks later it appeared again with the same MO.I reported it and Ebay >removed the auction. > >Some months later it appeared again with the same MO.I reported it and Ebay >removed the auction. > >Again some months later it appeared again with the same MO.I reported it and >Ebay removed the auction. > >And again some months later it appeared again with the same MO.I reported it and >Ebay didn`t get back to me the auction ended with no bids. > >Then another auction of mine was copied in the same way and I reported this as >well. And again Ebay didn’t reply and left the auction to run its course of no >bids. > >Now the auction had appeared yet again with the same MO. I haven’t bothered >reporting it as it is now well known by the dedicated chess fraternity that this >is a bogus auction. I doubt if somebody is really interested to pay 1000$ for a dedicated chess computer. I think that today it is simply too expensive so even without assuming that it is a bogus auction I doubt if it is going to have a single buyer with that price. Uri
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