>Extremely high auction bids are often scams.
>
>The bidder makes a deal with the seller
>to kick back some of the money,
>or to respond in kind.
>
>The winning bidder,
>gets an enormous amount of free...

> On Mon, 19 May 2008 11:38:45 +0800, "Tom Potter"
> yahoo.com> wrote:
>

>>Extremely high auction bids are often scams.
>>
>>The bidder makes a deal with the seller
>>to kick back some of the money,
>>or to respond in kind.
>>
>>The winning bidder,
>>gets an enormous amount of free publicity
>>for himself and his business,
>>
>>and a new value is set on the item
>>so that some sucker can be taken in
>>on a future sell.
>>
>>To contrast Einstein's letter ...

>
>"George Hammond" notspam.org> wrote in message
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>> On Mon, 19 May 2008 11:38:45 +0800, "Tom Potter"
>> yahoo.com> wrote:
>>
>>...

> On Tue, 20 May 2008 19:44:26 +0800, "Tom Potter"
> yahoo.com> wrote:
>

>>
>>"George Hammond" notspam.org> wrote in message
>>news:m6f234touugccg87ug0kdkid3pl6up1hdu@4ax.com...

>>> On Mon, 19 May 2008 11:38:45 +0800, "Tom Potter"
>>> yahoo.com> wrote:
>>>

>>>>Extremely high auction bids are often scams.
>>>>
>>>>The bidder makes a deal with the seller
>>>>to kick back some of the money,
>>>>or to respond in kind.
>>>>
>>>>The winning bidder,
>>>>gets an enormous amount of free publicity
>>>>for himself and his business, ...

>

>

> On Wed, 21 May 2008 13:02:42 +0800, "Tom Potter"
> yahoo.com> wrote:
>

>>

>

>>

> [Hammond]
> Excuse me, I was unaware when I responded to you that you
> are a notious Usenet anti-Semitic crackpot.
> I only replied because you mentioned living in China and
> I thought you might know something about Chinese religious
> beleifs.
> It appears however the reason you're living in China is
> because a bigoted crackpot like you is not welcome in the
> U.S. and is probably ignored in China where anti-Semitism is
> virtually unknown.
>
> killfile: "Tom Potter" yahoo.com> ...