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To: pass pass who wrote (3892)	6/27/1999 10:09:00 PM
From: Randy Ellingson	Respond to of 7772

Is it authentic? Oh yeah, it's authentic alright. Judge the seller by their feedback: just click on their hyperlinked name for the auction of interest, and you can view the individual comments from people who have bought from and/or sold to him or her. BTW, was $7 the winning bid? Randy

To: pass pass who wrote (3892)	6/28/1999 3:39:00 PM
From: mrknowitall	Respond to of 7772

pass - what you're seeing is a seller who is very confident that the bid price will be run up - OR - you're seeing an auction that has a reserve on it. I've bought things from sellers on ebay, and had only one transaction that I wasn't happy about and I ended up getting my money back from the seller. It's the reputation thing that makes or breaks them. I saw one guy that I had bought something from (satisfactorily, too) finally abandon ebay - as his volume rose he apparently was having trouble keeping up with the handling end of the business. Things went south pretty quick and he probably found he wasn't getting enough bids because his feedback kept dogging him - people were leaving some rather nasty comments. Funny, though, he pulled up stakes and is now over on Yahoo with a different name but the same merchandise coming from the same part of the same state - just a new PO Box number. Just my thoughts . . . beware of what you buy and from whom!! Mr. K.