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From: ransley on 10 Jul 2010 17:18
On Jul 10, 11:05 am, otter <bighorn_b...(a)hotmail.com> wrote:
> On Jul 10, 8:14 am, ransley <Mark_Rans...(a)Yahoo.com> wrote:
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> > On Jul 9, 12:30 pm, John Navas <spamfilt...(a)navasgroup.com> wrote:
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> > > On Fri, 9 Jul 2010 05:54:35 -0700 (PDT), in
> > > <4879bfbe-7603-4ae3-85e5-27951bc14...(a)s9g2000yqd.googlegroups.com>,
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> > > RichA <rander3...(a)gmail.com> wrote:
> > > >http://www.swoopo.com/brw/cameras-photo_51.html
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> > > It's actually a kind of scam.
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> > > --
> > > John
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> > > "Assumption is the mother of all screw ups."
> > > [Wethern’s Law of Suspended Judgement]
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> > How do you get scammed, ive never used ebay so I dont know.
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> Swoopo isn't at all like ebay.  Google it to see how it works.
> Basically, it costs you a dollar each time you bid, even if you don't
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I saw the price a camera sold for, something like .12 cents, will the
seller have to deliver for that price, its got to be a scam.
From: otter on 11 Jul 2010 10:14
On Jul 10, 4:18 pm, ransley <Mark_Rans...(a)Yahoo.com> wrote:
> On Jul 10, 11:05 am, otter <bighorn_b...(a)hotmail.com> wrote:
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> > On Jul 10, 8:14 am, ransley <Mark_Rans...(a)Yahoo.com> wrote:
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> > > On Jul 9, 12:30 pm, John Navas <spamfilt...(a)navasgroup.com> wrote:
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> > > > On Fri, 9 Jul 2010 05:54:35 -0700 (PDT), in
> > > > <4879bfbe-7603-4ae3-85e5-27951bc14...(a)s9g2000yqd.googlegroups.com>,
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> > > > RichA <rander3...(a)gmail.com> wrote:
> > > > >http://www.swoopo.com/brw/cameras-photo_51.html
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> > > > It's actually a kind of scam.
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> > > > --
> > > > John
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> > > > "Assumption is the mother of all screw ups."
> > > > [Wethern’s Law of Suspended Judgement]
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> > > How do you get scammed, ive never used ebay so I dont know.
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> > Swoopo isn't at all like ebay.  Google it to see how it works.
> > Basically, it costs you a dollar each time you bid, even if you don't
> > win the auction.- Hide quoted text -
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> I saw the price a camera sold for, something like .12 cents, will the
> seller have to deliver for that price, its got to be a scam.- Hide quoted text -
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> - Show quoted text -

Google it to see how it works, if you are really interested. From
what I understand, there are several different kinds of "auctions",
but they all seem to operate on the principal that each bid costs a
dollar, whether you win or not, and the auction time is extended each
time someone "bids". So if a camera produces a thousand bids, that's
$1K dollars to the seller/site (not sure quite how they divide this
up), even though the "sales price" is only 12 cents or whatever.

It could possibly be "legit", in that they can do what they say they
do, and can still make a profit. However, the potential for scam is
very high, via shill bidding, etc. I lost all interest in buying
anything there after I read how it works.
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