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    Re: Does this sound familiar? —Santosh Bhat
   (...) 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)
   
        Re: Does this sound familiar? —John Porter
     (...) 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)
   
        Re: Does this sound familiar? —Kerry Raymond
    (...) 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)
   
        Re: Does this sound familiar? —John Porter
   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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