[Phono-L] eBay opera auction that was a photo

[Walt Sommers]

A study? I think not. The seller got caught (by potential buyers and 
other observers like us) doing nothing more than running scams. The 
guide he wrote on eBay is a 5-year old child's transparent attempt to 
cover his tracks once he was caught. He ended them all because he was 
getting heat - and not just from the phonograph world.  The seller had 
other listings (not phonographs) at the same time and some of those are 
now being discussed in various internet forums. He was able to end them 
before eBay had to get involved, and something makes me think that eBay 
is now looking into the situation right now. Even if the guide he 
crafted to try to justify himself had been more carefully written with 
good grammar and diction, it still remains that he intentionally 
misrepresented items for sale. The "guide" he wrote appeared within 
hours of his user id popping up all over the internet - curious, isn't 
it? There is no way this describes a legitimate survey. The owner of the 
pictures would have had to grant permission for them to be used and we 
know that never happened. One of the single most valuable parts of a 
legitimate survey of this type would be to ascertain not so much whether 
there are fish nibbling on your bait (which is where he ended it) but 
whether you can sink that big hook and pull that 3 foot muskie out of 
the lake. Without an actual payment from someone there is no way that a 
survey could be said to be complete let alone successful. Not to mention 
that the text looks like it was thumbed-out on a blackberry and not 
quite re-formatted for full screen width.

That seller will never object to people telling him that they did not 
like his survey or methodology: he is just glad that he hasn't [yet] 
been caught and charged with the crimes he committed.


buck Buchanan wrote:
> I just sent the person a note about what he did and how I felt about it.
> If you follow the guide back it will take you to the person's ebay information.
> I think we all should let him know what we thought about his so called failed study.
> The information that he obtained with using the phonograph is really flawed and he should be told about that.
>
> Thank you 
>
> Bill
>
> --- On Fri, 1/23/09, Rich <rich-mail at octoxol.com> wrote:
> From: Rich <rich-mail at octoxol.com>
> Subject: [Phono-L] eBay opera auction that was a photo
> To: "Antique Phonograph List" <phono-l at oldcrank.org>
> Date: Friday, January 23, 2009, 12:42 PM
>
> Remember that auction where the seller was auctioning a photograph and claimed
> it was research?  We have results.
> http://reviews.ebay.com/SHOCKING-TRUTH-about-bidding_W0QQugidZ10000000009959117
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