Posted on 12/21/2013 10:11:45 AM PST by sheikdetailfeather
George Zimmerman earned a new title today — professional artist — when eBay bidding ended on his six-figure oil painting.
The winning bid: $100,099.99.
It wasn't immediately known who bought Zimmerman's original oil painting showing part of an American flag washed in blue with the words "God," "one nation," and "with liberty and justice for all" printed in the flag stripes.
Bidding ended at 12:55 p.m. today.
"Whoever wins within the Continental United States, will receive this painting delivered by me personally. Your friend," Zimmerman told his commenters on the eBay auction site.
(Excerpt) Read more at orlandosentinel.com ...
You can have a transactions number in the tens of thousands.
I think that’s why his new girl-friend dropped her fake charges. Money, Money, Money, Money,...... Money.
Comedians are going to love that line.
You don’t understand how the system works.
As I said, the numeric feedback number is the number of positives minus the number of negatives.
Thus, a person who has received 100 positives and 97 negatives would have a feedback number of 3. Likewise, a person who has received 3 positives and zero negatives will also have a feedback number of 3.
(This is hypothetical, of course, as the person with 97 negatives will have been kicked off of eBay long before he reached 97.)
The first case will have a positive feedback percentage of 50.8% (100 positives, 197 total), the second will have a positive feedback percentage of 100%.
There is also a neutral feedback, which isn’t counted in the feedback number, but which is counted the same as a negative in the positive feedback percentage.
The winning bidder in the GZ auction has 3 positives, zero negatives, and zero neutrals. His feedback number is 3, and his positive feedback percentage is 100%.
But these numbers are misleading in one important respect. That is because eBay has made it impossible for a seller to give a buyer anything but a positive feedback which has given crooked buyers free reign to work scams on sellers.
A typical scam would be to buy a genuine article, claim that it’s a fake, return a fake to the seller and demand a refund, and keep the real one for free. In nearly every case, eBay will back the buyer, not the seller.
Anyway, if your only activity is as a buyer, your feedback percentage can’t be anything other than 100%.
As if the bidder will ever follow through.
The buyers feedback is 100%.
They weren’t canceled...they were outbid. There is auto bidding and it jumps when someone else bids. There were 96 bids. You can see them all listed.
If that’s the way the system works, then I didn’t understand it. Thanks.
Don’t know if it’s worth a hundred thou but it’s much better than most so-called modern art that I see now days.
Look at the bottom of the page and you will see all the cancelled and retracted bids. There were 12 of them.
$ 99.99
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LOL. I suspect the tax man is watching him like a buzzard on roadkill.
Got that right... ;^)
now I understand why his girlfriend took him back and I am sorry to say the poor man is not too smart accepting her back....
i read that zimmerman owes up to a million dollars in lawyers cost so its not like zimmerman is racking in the cash,
hes just trying to pay his debt back he owes thanks to a case that should have never gone to the courts in the first place
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