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Subject: 
What some people will buy!
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Date: 
Mon, 6 Dec 1999 12:42:29 GMT
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Hey there,

Get a load of this:

http://cgi.ebay.com/aw-cgi/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=210340270

23 pieces, currently going for... $71.00.

Is the calendar software over at eBay having some kind of Y2K problem?
Does somebody over there think that it's 04/01/2000?

O.K., so the set is "rare."  But I haven't paid more for many of the
coins in my coin collection, and those were 19th Century silver dollars
in uncirculated condition...

--
John J. Ladasky Jr., Ph.D.
Department of Structural Biology
Stanford University Medical Center
Stanford, CA 94305



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  Re: What some people will buy!
 
And the sad thing is, there really aren't any special pieces... I think I could make probably 20 of these just out of the parts I have in the basement! Troy John J. Ladasky Jr. <ladasky@my-deja.com> wrote in message news:384BAF34.14C0DF...eja.com... (...) (25 years ago, 7-Dec-99, to lugnet.market.auction)
  Re: What some people will buy!
 
(...) I suppose y'all saw the closing bid? $128.51. That's $5.59 a piece. Troy Cerfatti was right, not a single piece was unique -- or, for that matter, large or special in any way. *Plus* there's shipping... want to bet it gets sent insured? Some (...) (25 years ago, 8-Dec-99, to lugnet.market.auction, lugnet.market.theory)

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