One thing is for certain: If it's in eBay's financial interest (page hits, insertion and final value fees), and they can plausibly deny any liability or other involvement, they will just let it ride - and the often highly-touted TOS (aka "the rules") be damned.
In short - If they can skim a little profit off of others' crookery, whilst keeping their own hands clean - they can and will allow it - always, and without notable exception. Period. On Tue, Nov 1, 2016 at 9:27 PM, Brad H <vintagecompu...@bettercomputing.net> wrote: > > > I've been wondering about that one myself. Very odd. That's not the > first time I've seen that either. Along with stuff that 'sells' for absurd > amounts of money. > At first I though the absurd sales were attempts to manipulate the > market.. but it doesn't seem worth the effort or ebay fees. I almost kind > of wonder with some of them if something more sinister is going on.. like > money laundering. That'd be a fairly obscure way to do it.. > > > Sent from my Samsung device > > -------- Original message -------- > From: Corey Cohen <appleco...@optonline.net> > Date: 2016-11-01 4:43 PM (GMT-08:00) > To: cctalk@classiccmp.org > Subject: What the heck is the deal with this eBay item > > https://www.ebay.com/itm/272433760795 > > This Helios II has been "sold" multiple times for varying amounts and then > suddenly hours later appears for sale again. I'm done bidding on this each > time it appears, because if I won, who knows what I'd receive or if the > seller would cancel the auction. > > corey cohen > uǝɥoɔ ʎǝɹoɔ
