Duo-Double Take!!! [malfunctioning link]

[Robert R. Daniel Jr.]

On Saturday, April 24, 2004, at 08:15 PM, Duo/2400 List wrote:
> Date: Sat, 24 Apr 2004 18:40:49 -0400
> From: mko at nt.net
> Subject:  Re: Duo-DoubleTake!!!
>
> I went there:
>
>> http://offer.ebay.com/ws3/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewBids&item=3D4125029959
>
> and got this:
>
>> Sorry, the item 3 does not appear to be a valid number on eBay.com. 
>> Please go back and try >again.
>
> So I don't get it. What was it?

To view this item, a Newer Tech UltraDock going for what looks like
a prodigious amount of money, go to eBay (www.ebay.com),
click on search, then input the item number as a search term.
In this case, it's 4125029959.  The reason the links above
do not work is because some extraneous characters have
gotten inserted into the link.  (This sometimes happens in
the cut-and-paste process.)

By the way, a high bid like this depends on there being
two folks willing to bid up to that point.  Granted, in the case
of a dishonest seller, one bidder might be a shill who bids
up as a way of getting the "real" bidder to go higher. But
without a bidder willing to bid up  and _pay_, the seller
gains little.  So there may be some dishonesty involved,
but without a bidder who wants an Ultradock so bad
she or he is willing to pay a ton of money, you would
not have a result like the auction Craig brought to our
attention.

I sold an Ultradock a couple of years ago for more
money than I had bought it for.  (It sold for about $90 if
I recall.)  The Ultradock is increasingly rare on eBay.  It just
may be that some rich person who has plenty of money
to burn has been turned on to Duos.  In that case, I have
boxes full of Duos, Duo parts and Duo accessories I
would be willing to part with!

I am not trying to defend the auction we have been talking
about, or suggest that nothing fishy is going on.  But it does
seem entirely possible to me that someone might want
to pay that kind of money for a rare but immensely useful
Duo accessory.

Best,

Robert
amateur Mac-Head