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Halvar wrote: ↑On Geekhack: stack of IBM 107 key 4704 Model Fs

http://geekhack.org/index.php?topic=55819.0

Stored in smoke-filled home?
Surely a typo, no?

zingo1963 wrote: ↑chzel,

Stored in smoke-filled home?
Surely a typo, no?

I list my items this way because it seems to be the terminology used on ebay. My home is not usually filled with smoke

kbdfr wrote: ↑I would like to get back to BobMoz, who registered here to ask if the reserve price of 320€ set for a NIB Cherry G81-3000 SAU in his eBay sale is OK.

As this is a quite long and detailed posting, I'm going to use the "spoiler" function to keep it short. But please do not read only the conclusion that follows, but also the investigation steps (and links) contained in the spoiler.

Spoiler:

I wondered how many of such rare items he has, because just before listing this keyboard he had already offered and sold another NIB G81-3000 SAU.
I had a look at the completed sale, there the description said "Serial number 10912" and one of the pics showed the label with this serial number:
http://www.ebay.it/itm/Tastiera-CHERRY- ... 2591b09ce3
Then I had a look at the "new" sale, astonishingly enough there the description also says "Serial number 10912" and again one of the pics shows the label with this serial number:
http://www.ebay.it/itm/Tastiera-CHERRY- ... 1369455075
My conclusion: the first keyboard has been sold, but for some reason the transaction is not to be completed.

So again I had a look at the completed sale (I now post the link on ebay.com so as to allow all non-Italian speakers to understand what I am going to explain):
http://www.ebay.com/itm/161358060771
If you click on the number of bids indicated after the winning bid, you get to a list of the bids:
http://offer.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll? ... 7675.l2565
Bidders are shown as a code so as to protect their identity, the highest bidder is shown as h***t (2), i.e. someone with a feedback of two.
If you bid on his name in the list, you access a 30-day summary of his bids:
http://offer.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll? ... e_ViewLink
and there you see that in the last 30 days, h***t placed bids only with this same seller. It was not only for keyboard (or even computer) stuff, but also for telephone stuff.

So I had a look into the feedback record of the seller. One has to know that transaction partners are also encoded there to protect their identidy, but with a different code than that of the bid summary.
This is the feedback left for others by the seller:
http://feedback.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.d ... &items=100
Looking for buyers with a feedback of (2), we find several occurrences of a***t (2), and as the sales are not very old, there is even a link provided to these sales (along with the auction title), for example a "Valiglia in legno" ("wooden suitcase") or a "Radio Mivar TRAFTON I.C. (1969)".
In both cases looking into the list of the bids and then the 30-day summary of the highest bidder, one sees it is identical to that of the buyer of the first Cherry G81-3000 SAU. And in both cases, exactly like for the keyboard, the items were relisted just after the sale concluded.

I had a look at another sale won by someone else, which was not relisted. Here again I found the very same bidder:
http://offer.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll? ... 7675.l2565
(with the very same 30-day summary, but this sale is older and thus does not appear there).

So there is a compelling conclusion: BobMoz practices shill-bidding on his sales.
As obviously he uses even more shill-bidding accounts (if someone is interested I can demonstrate that), I would even say he practices massive shill-bidding on his sales.
And after not succeeding in reaching the highest price possible, he comes here to ask us what a correct price would be.

Perhaps I should be happy someone tries to raise market prices on G81-3000 SAU (after all, I might be tempted to sell mine at some time - but do not ask, if this happens it is already promised to someone), but I think what he deserves is at least not to get an answer.

Halvar wrote: ↑We already have that going.

gogusrl wrote: ↑
http://www.ebay.com/itm/Cardinal-Techno ... 4187506304