Wednesday, April 09, 2008

$$ SURPRISE MyStErY AuCtIoN $$ LCD TV CASH MP3 Laptop $

Not having any success finding people offering laptop rental services on eBay, I came across another bloated category of eBay auctions: "mystery auctions."

Some people doing mystery auctions are actually selling an item as advertised, and then including a "surprise" somewhere in there. This one in particular is only selling an e-mail address, and he's got 5000 of them available.

To their credit, some of them are actually offering tangible items and whatever they want to throw in, but when someone has something of minimal value (ie: a $2 drink box) that's all the way up to $25 current bid, the old adage of the fool and his/her money immediately comes to mind.

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