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Hi all, While surfing ebay this morning, I came across the following listing: (URL) location: Austria Auction Currency: Aussie $ Does this sound familiar? About 3 months ago, there was a German seller selling off some yummy train items - look at (...) (23 years ago, 8-Jun-01, to lugnet.loc.au)
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(...) was that the listing was in Australian dollars because eBay Australia was offering free listings? The question this time is, was it a simple mistake of Austria vs Australia? Or is there a deliberate ploy/scam involved here? (...) I'm sorry to (...) (23 years ago, 8-Jun-01, to lugnet.loc.au, lugnet.market.auction, lugnet.market.buy-sell-trade)
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(...) Hard to say, the shipping cost is listed as "Shipping cost is AU$ 20 (approx. US$ 10.30), parcel is registed and insured." If it were a simple currency mistake, 20 Austran Schillings is approx equal to US$1.23 - nowhere near the US$10.30 (...) (23 years ago, 8-Jun-01, to lugnet.market.auction, lugnet.market.buy-sell-trade)
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(...) Well, as it happens, I recall getting an email recently from ebay Australia announcing another free listing day. However, as I wasn't interested in selling, I deleted it. So it does seem that these strange listings do occur around the (...) (23 years ago, 8-Jun-01, to lugnet.market.auction, lugnet.market.buy-sell-trade)
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In lugnet.market.auction, Kerry Raymond writes: <snip> (...) Well, Upon reading the terms and conditions they say that proof of payment is required (i.e. cash cannot be proven) so I didn't bother. Another person that won another auction from the (...) (23 years ago, 12-Jun-01, to lugnet.market.auction, lugnet.market.buy-sell-trade)
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(...) While I know replying to one's own message is not good ettiquette, I think this is a good exception. More surfing on ebay has raised this interesting point. The same seller has placed some more auctions up. For example: (URL) thing is, while (...) (23 years ago, 12-Jun-01, to lugnet.loc.au, lugnet.market.auction, lugnet.market.buy-sell-trade)
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(...) Adding my experience to this, I got burned on a similar Technic auction - AUS$ location Germany. There was some + feedback but not a large number. I think there were a dozen or so auctions going. The Seller said that he needed a credit card to (...) (23 years ago, 12-Jun-01, to lugnet.loc.au)
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