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Is this a joke?

Posted: Fri Jul 12, 2013 12:17 am
by oldtvsandtoys

Re: Is this a joke?

Posted: Fri Jul 12, 2013 1:00 am
by Sidewinder
Yes!

Click through the top menu of this site to see some other items that are copied.
http://planettrading.co.uk/more/gramophones.html

If the 2 shown in the above website are not enough variety, go wild here:
http://www.oldcrank.com/articles/crapop ... alog-1.pdf

Re: Is this a joke?

Posted: Fri Jul 12, 2013 10:08 am
by Tinkerbell
oldtvsandtoys wrote:Is this a crap o phone?

http://www.ebay.com/itm/Gramophone-Comp ... 27d4bcab53
Judging by the high selling price and low seller feedback rating on Ebay, I would speculate this seller falls into one of two categories:

1) An uninformed buyer who realized after spending too much money they were duped and is now trying to recoup some of his/her losses; or

2) A shrewd seller looking to dupe another uninformed buyer that they are buying some beautiful, unique and collectible machine.

Either way, it's a crap-o-phone plain and simple. At lease the seller is representing the machine as new, and not some antique. :rose:

For the benefit of those who may see this posting after the listing has expired and been removed from Ebay:

Re: Is this a joke?

Posted: Fri Jul 12, 2013 10:16 am
by HisMastersVoice
At first I was disturbed that there was a bid on this at $3000, but the bidder has 0 feedback, which screams shill bidding.

Re: Is this a joke?

Posted: Fri Jul 12, 2013 7:59 pm
by Retrograde
HisMastersVoice wrote:At first I was disturbed that there was a bid on this at $3000, but the bidder has 0 feedback, which screams shill bidding.
I thought shill bidding only worked if there were other bidders ;) Could be some smarty-pants who registered and then bid to get the sellers hopes up.