[Ti] Ti book value/specs

[Barbara Needham]

Bob Fowles on 3/10/07 said

>At 11:35 AM -0800 3/9/07, Jerry Krinock wrote:
>>on 07/03/07 19:38, jf at jferris at hvc.rr.com wrote:
>>
>>>  On ebay I found a Powerbook which went for $7,100.00 - item 130080112097
>>>
>>>  I wonder why so much??
>>
>>It looks real.  I don't know.  Must be some new kind of scam.
>>
>
>A 17" 2G/160G Macbook Pro with Applecare is $3148 from the Apple 
>store. The included software on the ebay 17" is not worth $4000. The 
>ebay history shows that the bidding went from $1500 to $7100 in 8 
>minutes.  The winner was listed as "not a registered user". I thought 
>you had to be registered to bid. All very strange.  Could it possibly 
>be that the winner is the seller who decided not to sell and instead 
>of canceling just entered an impossibly high bid?

Or perhaps someone meant to enter $1700 and reversed their digits.. but
then why they wouldn't cancel is beyond me... we had to cancel once when
we added two zeros to a bid but forgot the decimal point!