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Subject: 
SeriousCollector
Newsgroups: 
lugnet.market.auction, lugnet.announce
Followup-To: 
lugnet.market.auction
Date: 
Fri, 2 Apr 1999 04:00:28 GMT
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LPIEN@IWANTNOSPAM.CTP.COMihatespam
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Check THIS out:

http://www.seriouscollector.com/

If this isn't for real, it is one of the most elaborate practical/April
Fool jokes I have ever seen. Note the anti sniping policy! Any bid keeps
the auction alive for 24 hours.  ** I LIKE that **

I am not so keen on having to give a credit card to register. Although
telephone registration verification is also offered, I DARE anyone to
actually reach me on a phone during the week. It's impossible as I am
always on the go.

I hope this is for real and I wish Derick Bulkley well either way.
Naturally I registered with handle "Lar".

Followups to market.auction, of course

--
Larry Pieniazek    http://my.voyager.net/lar
FDIC Know your Customer is wounded, thanks to you, but not dead...
See http://www.defendyourprivacy.com for details
For me: No voyager e-mail please. All snail-mail to Ada, please.
- Posting Binaries to RTL causes flamage... Don't do it, please.
- Stick to the facts when posting about others, please.
- This is a family newsgroup, thanks.



Message has 4 Replies:
  Re: SeriousCollector
 
I checked this site out myself and was quite impressed by the presentation. If it is a hoax, someone spent a *lot* of time on it! I was especially concerned that the registration pages (where you enter credit-card info) were not HTTPS. Hmmmm... -Tim (...) (25 years ago, 3-Apr-99, to lugnet.market.auction)
  Re: SeriousCollector
 
(...) This part of the _About_ page bothers me: Along with the debut of The Serious Collector, comes the introduction of a proprietary auction methodology unique on the ^^^...^^^ world wide web. The Serious Collector employs the Aging-of-Bids (...) (25 years ago, 4-Apr-99, to lugnet.market.auction)
  (canceled)
 
  Re: SeriousCollector
 
The Serious Collector Ain't No Joke. We're establishing a serious collector's community - a better, service-oriented alternative to online fleamarkets. After holding a big Lego auction in the fall of 97, I started thinking about how the auctions we (...) (25 years ago, 4-Apr-99, to lugnet.market.auction)

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