Great detective work springsong. I also remembered seeing this photo somewhere but couldn't remember where.
If I was the bidder and didn't know, I myself would appreciate others telling me in time. Its clear the photo was copied and altered. It is allowed to email the bidders as long as you are not offering to sell outside of Ebay, etc. Hopefully, they atleast do some research and see that we are all trying to help expose this fraud.
As far as Ebay goes, I don't think they care as long as the seller is not breaking their rules. My best bet is this seller will make his money and later on change his ID to appear as a different seller, keep his/her name written down so as to remember his/her unethical selling practices. I'll personally take my stand and vow never to bid or buy from this seller regardless of what the auction is.
Gemila
don't buy this plant
how do you find the closed auctions?
Do an advanced search and you can search for closed items, by seller, etc.
http://pages.ebay.com/search/items/search_adv.html
This message was edited Apr 27, 2004 6:12 PM
Did anyone e-mail magdalena98310?
I did Sue. Didn't hear anything back.
As the hybridizer of MM I wrote to him last night and have not heard a word from him. It seems he has written to everyone but me.
Theres a link on ebay to report fraud-- they actually do care. They'll investigate it and either force the seller to take it down or take it down.
My fiance watches guitar selling on ebay a lot, and there are tons of fraudulent guitar sales, its insane. He's part of a guitar forum (aren't we dorky with our hobby forums?? hehe ) and they watch out for each other just like here!
Someone should go here, http://pages.ebay.com/securitycenter/
Theres a green button on the right that says "Report a Problem" Hopefully someone will stop that guy.
Glad you located the source of that photo, it did look familiar and that was bothering me not being able to place it.
The seller is misrepresenting his merchandise as something it is not, which would seem to be fraudulent regardless of the lack of patent.
On a lighter eBay note, check out this auction. Read all the way down, the guy keeps adding comments as he gets viewer emails.
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=4146756343
Who knew eBay had such real life dramas going on everyday? Fraud, theft, divorce, and even marriage proposals.
My goodness this thread has grown....
Time to call in Inspector Cleuseau to get to the bottom of this..... :)~
Oh Kell that is so funny. Did you see what the bid price is up to?
lol, Kell
That is hilarious....
The current bid is $1275.12, well worth the auction. lol
kell....I read that all the way though from your link! Too funny! Thank you for posting it, I already sent it to a friend!
Thanks for the laugh Kell!
well it is up to 1495.00 now, way to funny, he must be a comedian!!atleast he will get all is money back on it !!
that is HYSTERICAL!!!!!!
That is so funny Kell. Where do you find these things?
I sure had a good laugh with this one. Needed it.
Kell - I first heard about this on the Golden Retriever network, I thought it was a hoax. Mercy me, that's funny!!!!!
SLike
That is too funny! Good find Kell!!
Well, the bid is now over $160,000.00....
Guess I'll have to finally bow out....
Only have $165,000 on me and I still haven't paid my mortgage for next month....darn.... :)
Gosh, when I first saw this 2 hours ago the bid was $950. Now it is more than the dress was new, isn't it?
LOL SD, one hundred and sixty thousand dollars..............
Tell us how much is your monthly mortgage??? Your house was just great but ..........
OMG Kell lol I laughed so hard! I wonder if the bidders will end up paying the amount total when its done! My word.
lol, Kell
I didn't mean to make it seem my mortgage was so high...
It actually includes the heating ... :)
You two are a mess! :o)
Well....LOLOL...I just happened upon this thread and looked at Kell's post on ebay and the bid is $9,999,999.00!!! Geez! How could that be possible???
Edited to say....I CAN'T READ VERY WELL.....the bid is $99,999,999.00!!! WOW!
Kell....where did you ever find this?
This message was edited Apr 28, 2004 1:08 AM
Good Morning from a night owl in MS! Ya'll will be very glad to learn that the eBay seller in question, planetrj, cancelled his MM auction last night at 23:07 with this explanation from eBay: "The seller ended this listing early because the item was lost or broken." I thank you all for looking out for us newbies and not letting us get fooled, as we easily can!
Yvonne
Good about the canceled transaction on Ebay.
Kell, you owe me new underwear!!!!!!
Lani
$17,100.00?? Is someone really gonna pay that? LOL! I bet that guys ex is really steamin!
It's good to see the guy finally closed the auction. I really think "magdalena98310" is him bidding on his own stuff. Look at the bidding page of that person (of course the fake MM was on there too before if was closed) .... http://cgi6.ebay.com/ws1/eBayISAPI.dll?MfcISAPICommand=ViewBidItems&userid=magdalena98310&completed=1&sort=3&all=1&rows=25
It's odd... out of all the brug auctions on ebay and this newbie only bids on what he sells.
That was too funny! Thanks Kell.
Good catch about magdalena98310 Sue. I'm glad the auction was closed down.
...............This from the eBay page ......
" The seller ended this listing early because the item was lost or broken." .............
Good work. Guess we got through to him ...... For now anyway. =)
I love it when the Good Guy wins!!
Bonnie
""" Group Hugs """
I checked eBay today and listed there are brugmansia tree seeds. Okay, so is there a seed that can be planted that will grow a single trunked tree?? That doesn't sound right, although, the single trunked tree that I have was listed, at the nursery, as a tree, and the other brugs were listed as Angel Trumpet bushes or shrubs. So, what's the skinny?? SLike
I just heard that this fellow from e-bay was going to be on the Today show this morning!!!
cool what day? I will have to watch that one.
Today...Wed. April 28th !!!
oh well i missed it , did you see it?
Oh shoot, I missed it! Was he too funny in person? Anyone see him? I see they fixed his auction so the nuts were deleted from bidding.
Whatever he gets, he deserves every penny of it. lol
The entertainment value alone was worth it. :)