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To: Don Pueblo who wrote (424)	4/29/1999 10:10:00 AM
From: Henry Volquardsen	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 3795

*OT* (if that's possible) under the general subject of Web Mania I thought some of you might like this 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. _- Copyright 1999 by United Press International. All rights reserved.