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I'm sure everyone will enjoy this one.... An auction on ebay finished a couple of hours ago, I wouldn't have noticed if it wasn't kind of obvious. The item number was #352488573 - 6706 frontier patrol. The seller was userid - smonro The high bidder (...) (24 years ago, 12-Jun-00, to lugnet.market.theory)
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You know, I'd REALLY love to be a fly on the wall when this gets talked about between the two of them! :-) I think I'll ask what happened.... Paul Sinasohn (...) (24 years ago, 12-Jun-00, to lugnet.market.theory)
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(...) Why don't they just set a higher starting price (but that costs more!) Maybe she should have kept her own name. They say they enjoy ebay on their 'me' page, guess when you can both take part in the same auction it just draws you that much (...) (24 years ago, 12-Jun-00, to lugnet.market.theory)
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They may be facing larger problems than that. According to ebay, this is against the nature of the site. According to the FBI, it is illegal to do. Let's watch and learn... (24 years ago, 12-Jun-00, to lugnet.market.theory)
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(...) against (...) Does ebay do any monitoring of this themselves, without prompting ? Or do they wait for a complaint ? Does the fact that they have their own id's make it legal ? I was wondering where to post this, not everyone would read market (...) (24 years ago, 12-Jun-00, to lugnet.market.theory)
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I e-mailed the husband, to let him know of our amusement over the situation. He actually bought it from her, with cash; she had found it on sale and it was a better price than he had found anywhere. Apparently they really DO keep there auctions (...) (24 years ago, 13-Jun-00, to lugnet.market.theory)
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(...) i don't know the .. details of these people, nor do i really want to check, but what makes you think they're husband and wife? the last names are different, maybe she kept hers .. but i dunno. (24 years ago, 13-Jun-00, to lugnet.market.theory)
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(...) scratch that .. must rememeber .. to read .. whole threads. sorry about that. and about replying to myself, here. just wanted to head any other responses off. (24 years ago, 13-Jun-00, to lugnet.market.theory)
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