eBay warns buyers off $1 mil 'Kenyan birth certificate'

wnd ^ | June 30, 2009 11:37 am Eastern | Drew Zahn

[jackibutterfly]

"I’ll offer anyone 100,000 for his authentic college records."

100,000 what?

[steve-b]

LOL — GMTA

[steve-b]

Quatloos.

[MEGoody]

They sell other birth certificates on Ebay.

Really? Got any support for that claim? I've never seen one or read an article about that happening where eBay didn't pull the auction from their site.

[Bigh4u2]

“eBay has a policy of not allowing the auctioning of government documents.”

So does that mean it’s real?

Otherwise wouldn’t it just be a ‘novelty item’?

I don’t think they ban those.

[diji]

“and yet the auction page has disappeared again”

bump

[Jim Noble]

I now question the authenticity of the “document” based on the seller’s apparent monetary gain as a priority. What price does this seller place on his own freedom? Watch him quickly disappear from the face of the earth

The only entity on earth which could authenticate such a document is the Foreign and Commonwealth Office in London.

Without their verification, it's just a piece of paper.

I can buy a "Kenya birth certificate" in Mombasa with your name on it which can pass any test on earth - except a check with the relevant government, UK before 1963, Kenya after.

[peace with honor]

my only point is it's a birth Certificate, not a government document, am I wrong?

[ezo4]

the person should just put up there own site for a auction. I watched its yesterday - it was at $1400 around 12:00pm and this morning it was close to a million

Aaaaaaaaannnnnnnd ................ its gone!

poof

[trustandobey]

When the auction first got pulled, I searched ebay for birth certificates and there was a copy of Elvis’s, it is goi\ne now, but this is posted
http://cgi.ebay.com/1834-German-Birth-Certificate-Frickenhofen-Wuerttemberg_W0QQitemZ250451590171QQcmdZViewItemQQptZAntiquarian_Collectible?hash=item3a5013fc1b&_trksid=p3286.c0.m14&_trkparms=65%3A12|66%3A2|39%3A1|72%3A1205|240%3A1318|301%3A1|293%3A1|294%3A50
also, check this one out—this is getting funny!

http://cgi.ebay.com/Obamas-Birth-Certificate-What-I-witnessed_W0QQitemZ110409331516QQcmdZViewItemQQptZLH_DefaultDomain_0?hash=item19b4e8b33c&_trksid=p3286.c0.m14&_trkparms=65%3A12|66%3A2|39%3A1|72%3A1205|240%3A1318|301%3A0|293%3A1|294%3A50

[RedhairRedhair]

Could the buyer, P***1, be this guy? http://puzo1.blogspot.com/

[Safrguns]

>>> The only entity on earth which could authenticate such a document is the Foreign and Commonwealth Office in London.

I guess Obama better not piss off the UK then huh?

[j_guru]

Looks like Zero had it frozen...

[Jim Noble]

I guess Obama better not piss off the UK then huh?

I have no doubt (personally) that if there was a British East Africa birth certificate on file in London, that we would have known about it two years ago.

[RummyChick]

Not really. I read the rules on Ebay yesterday. There is a phrase in there about looks like an official document.

[Churchillspirit]

Q: What do God and Obama have in common?

A: God does not have a birth certificate either......Rush, today.

[RobinOfKingston]

and e-bay is afraid of what?

Whatever it was that the thug who called them said would happen to ebay.

[1_Rain_Drop]

How can the auctioned document look like an official document if no one has seen it except for the seller? HUH?

Is a dissertation an official document? So now ebay shuts down auctions based on rumors.

[BykrBayb]

Those are some pretty serious charges. If eBay really believes what they’re saying, why haven’t they cancelled colmado_naranja’s account? http://shop.ebay.com/merchant/colmado_naranja_W0QQ_nkwZQQ_armrsZ1QQ_fromZ

[Fu-fu2]

Your post #50—hilarious link! “What I witnessed on ebay”—I agree that it appears ebay is admitting it is an official government document by pulling the auction.