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Thread ID: 45942 2004-06-08 00:29:00 Too good to be true? Nigel Thomson (629) Press F1
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242686 2004-06-08 01:48:00 Anyone here a member of http://www.scambusters.co.nz/ ?

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Jester (13)
242687 2004-06-08 02:07:00 > What makes me laugh is people selling freely
> available e-books,lists of wholesalers and content


I dont laugh at the seller, the seller is a smart person.

I laugh at the silly people who pay for such free stuff.
robsonde (120)
242688 2004-06-08 02:10:00 If you think THAT'S smart... have a look at what this (cgi.ebay.co.uk) bright spark was selling...

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Lohsing (219)
242689 2004-06-08 02:40:00 >>I dont laugh at the seller, the seller is a smart person.
Is a smart person someone who makes money off people who don't know that the product(s) may be free. I'm not so sure.

BTW. Wanna buy a report which tells you how to make money on the internet... only 5 bucks to you!
Dolby Digital (160)
242690 2004-06-08 02:58:00 hmm thats not a bad price?? 115pounds? thats about 300 NZD its not crystal but ive got one the same Budda (2736)
242691 2004-06-08 03:05:00 The definition of "value" is "what a willing buyer will pay a willing seller" .

In auctions it is assumed that the buyers are "informed": they know what they are bidding on . As a regular at "real" auctions I know to watch out for current retail prices of anything I consider buying .

I suppose this seller can argue that what is being sold is "information" . According to the PM, we are now an "information economy", so we don't need to produce anything; the world is queuing up to buy our information, even if they don't want our lamb, fruit, cheese, steel, . . .

:D
Graham L (2)
242692 2004-06-08 03:11:00 You should see my old boy at auctions,Funnist thing i ever saw was him bid like crazy on a motorbike only to find out later he had purchased a box of bicycle bits for 50 times there worth.

Or the 14 high chassis ex-army trailer that sat out the back for 15 years before we cut them up for scrap.

Meh heh heh.
metla (154)
242693 2004-06-08 03:16:00 OMG that poor bastard who bought an XBOX box! for $300!

Man I feel sorry for him. ANd it wasnt really a scam was it? So he's got a box worth $300....
willie_M (5608)
242694 2004-06-08 08:10:00 as an update to the original auction saga I emailed trademe admin in regard to the listing and I have just received this email.


Thanks for reporting the auction for: THE MICROSOFT SECRET REVEALED!!

The Trade Me Customer Support Team have reviewed the listing and has deemed that it is in breach of our terms and conditions. As a result the auction has been removed from the site.

Thank you for bringing this auction to our attention and making Trade Me a better place to buy and sell.


Happy trading,

The Trade Me Customer Support Team
dipstick01 (445)
242695 2004-06-08 08:25:00 > You have to be a Microsoft Partner to subscribe to
> it.

True, and I'm sure if Microsoft found out who was selling it they'd lose their Partner priviledges too.

To clarify though, the action pack is full-version software. A lot of it in fact. Not trial or time-limited software. It runs on a subscription (so after a year you have to purchase a new license, much like a lot of other corporate software), but its still the real-deal.

Mike.
Mike (15)
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