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EBAY HAS GOOD, BAD AND UGLY. WHAT DID YOU FIND?
ebay ^ | 30 January 2005

Posted on 01/30/2005 6:36:48 AM PST by MeneMeneTekelUpharsin

Fellow Freepers,

Here is an interesting find on ebay. P.T. Barnum was right:

Click here for a fool and his money are soon parted.


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KEYWORDS: conartists; ebay; ripoffs; scams
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To: Darksheare

" So far she has her ticket, and $300US from selling her car, but doesn't have anywhere to stay or spending money for her birthday presents."

I know one thing. NYC with no friend to put her up will consevatively cost her more like 300 per DAY! Good place to find a middle aged guy with money, tho.


21 posted on 01/30/2005 7:11:03 AM PST by international american (Tagline not convinced.............................)
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To: MeneMeneTekelUpharsin
I see 0 bids so who fell for it? Here is what I found on amazon at least


22 posted on 01/30/2005 7:12:00 AM PST by xp38
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To: Ditter
Well, whaddya know, you're right!
A pukeko is a bird.
I just did a search:

They are birds that are full of character and can provide a lot of amusement for the observer. The white undertail is flirted cheekily with every movement and their high querulous notes run the whole gamut of expression, from curiosity to interrogation to scolding. The naturalist Guthrie Smith maintained that they make great pets and that every country family should rear them.
:)

23 posted on 01/30/2005 7:15:34 AM PST by MaryFromMichigan (We childproofed our home, but they are still getting in)
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To: international american

Yikes!
*Mental image of unspeakable horror*


24 posted on 01/30/2005 7:15:54 AM PST by Darksheare (Trolls beware, the icy hands of the forum wraith are behind you!)
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To: TomB
Yeah, until you learn that she's a raving lunatic with more issues than the Wall Street Journal...

Then you are stuck with a psycho...

But hey, she's in New Zealand...how often do you go to New Zealand...

25 posted on 01/30/2005 7:19:08 AM PST by maui_hawaii
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To: MaryFromMichigan

You know, I seem to remember seeing those birds, Pukeko! (Thats why I didn't think it was puke) They may have been the ones you see on the ground on the side of the highways. I had my NZ bird book and we drove both north and south island (fabulous). Kinda reminded me of our Roadrunners. I still don't think the grandmother placed the ad on e-bay. ;9)


26 posted on 01/30/2005 7:25:10 AM PST by Ditter
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To: MaryFromMichigan
"I kinda doubt that Grandma would pick "pukeko75" as a screen name."

Agreed. And the "75" after the "pukeko" part obviously is short for 1975 (the year she was allegedly born).
27 posted on 01/30/2005 7:31:06 AM PST by jdm (Stockhausen, Kagel, Xenakis -- world capitals or avant-garde composers?)
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To: maui_hawaii

She resembles a model named "Shannon" I drew once a few years back..
Shannon was from New Zealand..
Eery...


28 posted on 01/30/2005 7:37:11 AM PST by Darksheare (Trolls beware, the icy hands of the forum wraith are behind you!)
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To: MeneMeneTekelUpharsin
This from the auction description: "She turns 30 this year and has always been there for me since my husband died when was 4."

Sounds like a Freudian slip. When, who, what was 4? When the girl was 4? So she's been looking after her grandma since 1979? Sounds like the word "I" belongs between the words "when" and "was." Speculant!

29 posted on 01/30/2005 7:48:05 AM PST by jdm (Stockhausen, Kagel, Xenakis -- world capitals or avant-garde composers?)
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To: Darksheare

ROTF........


30 posted on 01/30/2005 7:49:19 AM PST by international american (Tagline not convinced.............................)
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To: international american

Post 28 has a kinder gentler mental image..
*chuckle*


31 posted on 01/30/2005 7:53:05 AM PST by Darksheare (Trolls beware, the icy hands of the forum wraith are behind you!)
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To: TomB
Speaking as a dentist, she looks like she has a normal smile to me.

Those teeth look just a bit too white and straight to me. But I'll bow to your professional opinion.

32 posted on 01/30/2005 8:04:43 AM PST by Mr Ramsbotham (Laws against sodomy are honored in the breech.)
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To: Darksheare

Wew will nickname her "Little Lambchop"


33 posted on 01/30/2005 8:28:20 AM PST by international american (Tagline not convinced.............................)
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To: international american

LOL!

Little Lambchop it is.


34 posted on 01/30/2005 8:31:42 AM PST by Darksheare (Trolls beware, the icy hands of the forum wraith are behind you!)
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To: MeneMeneTekelUpharsin

Does she come with a blue dress?


35 posted on 01/30/2005 8:35:31 AM PST by mowowie
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To: mowowie

You have to buy her one.


36 posted on 01/30/2005 8:44:17 AM PST by international american (Tagline not convinced.............................)
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To: mowowie
Does she come with a blue dress?

ROFL!!!!

37 posted on 01/30/2005 10:30:33 AM PST by MeneMeneTekelUpharsin (Freedom is the freedom to discipline yourself so others don't have to do it for you.)
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To: InvisibleChurch; TomB; cardinal4; FairOpinion; Mr Ramsbotham; Lazamataz; DUMBGRUNT; oceanperch; ...
One more before I quit...you've got to see this scam:

Click here for ebay on drugs.

38 posted on 01/30/2005 11:35:16 AM PST by MeneMeneTekelUpharsin (Freedom is the freedom to discipline yourself so others don't have to do it for you.)
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To: MeneMeneTekelUpharsin

LOL!

Okay, I can't come up with some odd scheme for that oen, it has it's own odd scheme.
(My evil clone wives idea was pretty out there though..)


39 posted on 01/30/2005 11:38:49 AM PST by Darksheare (Trolls beware, the icy hands of the forum wraith are behind you!)
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