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BOY BIDS $2.8 M IN ONLINE AUCTION SPREE
4/29/99 9:38
(UPI Focus)
Boy bids $2.8 M in online auction spree
NEW YORK, April 29 (UPI) _ A 13-year-old boy has placed $2.8 million
in bids on the Internet auction site eBay, only to have them invalidated
because he is a minor.
Andrew Tyler of Haddonfield, N.J., tells the New York Post he is in
big trouble with his parents and is not supposed to talk about the cyber
spending spree.
His parents have stripped him of Internet access.
The Post reports eight of Tyler's bids failed, but five succeeded,
including $23,000 for a 1955 Ford convertable, $24,500 for a 1971
Corvette convertable, and $400,000 for a bedroom suite that belonged to
Canada's first prime minister.
Aubrey Garrett, who listed the suite with eBay, tells the Post he is
going to sue the Internet auctioneer over the incident.
The antique dealer from Kingston, Ont., says, ''You put a kid alone
on the Internet and this is going to happen.''
Tyler's eBay spree started on Aug. 4, when he put his best friend up
for auction as a slave.
Garrett says, ''His slave didn't sell so he became a Diamond Jim
buyer for eBay.''
Garrett says the $400,000 furniture sale went through, and he was
charged $5,000 in commission.
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