[Coco] high bids on eBay for Fire Copter

[Arthur Flexser]

It's also a prominent element in the very entertaining Hugh Grant movie,
"Mickey Blue Eyes", where gangsters auction off awful artwork painted by
one of them, while bidding for it themselves to launder the money.

Art


On Sat, Mar 15, 2014 at 6:06 PM, Bill Pierce <ooogalapasooo at aol.com> wrote:

>
> I would have to agree... it looks like someone is passing money through
> ebay.
> We use the very same technique in the World of Warcraft game auction house
> to pass money from Alliance characters to Horde characters.
> You put a worthless item on the neutral auction house for what ever amount
> you want to pass the money from the other faction. No one in their right
> mind would pay such outrageous prices so the item goes only to who it was
> intended to. My wife and I use this all the time in WoW to pass money from
> our horde chars to our alliance chars. BTW, for those who don't know World
> of Warcraft, you can't do any normal transactions or trades between the two
> factions, you can't even converse. The only connection between the two is
> the neutral house.
>
>
> Bill Pierce
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Ken Flanagan <kflan at selonia.com>
> To: CoCoList for Color Computer Enthusiasts <coco at maltedmedia.com>
> Sent: Sat, Mar 15, 2014 5:06 pm
> Subject: Re: [Coco] high bids on eBay for Fire Copter
>
>
> And if you look at some of the other auctions that buyer won from the same
> seller, there's other insane sold prices. One for over $700, at least 2 at
> over $200. Smells fishy to me.
> On Mar 15, 2014 1:39 PM, "S Klammer" <sklammer at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > ... and 80% of this user's bids went to this one seller.  That is over
> 100
> > items during the last 30 days... hmmm.
> >
> > sk
> > On 2014-03-15 4:35 PM, "Arthur Flexser" <flexser at fiu.edu> wrote:
> >
> > > On Sat, Mar 15, 2014 at 4:24 PM, Nick Marentes <
> nickma2 at optusnet.com.au
> > > >wrote:
> > >
> > > >
> > > > Without throwing in any conspiracy theories, I'd say it was a typo
> and
> > he
> > > > forgot to put the decimal point in after the 8 ($8.00).
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >
> > > Not with 10 bids ascending in strange increments to that figure!
> > >
> > > Art
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