Silly fools on eBay
Jun 10, 2001 | 8:20 pm
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Silly fools on eBay
I can't believe people are bidding for the 100 mile American Airlines vouchers found on Kellogg's products. Don't these morons realize not only are they paying more than .02 per mile but they could simply go to their local supermarket, spend less money and have a nutritious snack as well as miles.
There's a fool born every minute....
A few of many examples:
http://cgi.ebay.com/aw-cgi/eBayISAPI...tem=1243772097
http://cgi.ebay.com/aw-cgi/eBayISAPI...tem=1244695225
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[This message has been edited by MileageAddict (edited 06-11-2001).]
There's a fool born every minute....
A few of many examples:
http://cgi.ebay.com/aw-cgi/eBayISAPI...tem=1243772097
http://cgi.ebay.com/aw-cgi/eBayISAPI...tem=1244695225
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Addicted to airline miles? Check out: Mileage Workshop
[This message has been edited by MileageAddict (edited 06-11-2001).]
Jun 10, 2001 | 8:45 pm
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No kidding! I wonder if I could buy a new car by selling my 500,000 Alaska Airlines miles on eBay. Surely they're worth at least the value of a new Volvo S80.
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Jun 10, 2001 | 10:31 pm
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Like P. T. Barnum supposedly said, "There's one born every minute".
Did you notice that on the auction where the bid was $78 that the bidder's ID was hidden?
I guess so anyone with any sense can't e-mail them and say that buying 4 big boxes of Eggos they could get the same thing for a third of the cost. At $39/1K, that SAAver ticket would run them a cool $975.
Hmmmm...eBay, one of the great contributors to the decline of Western civilization
[This message has been edited by tovaz (edited 06-10-2001).]
Did you notice that on the auction where the bid was $78 that the bidder's ID was hidden?
I guess so anyone with any sense can't e-mail them and say that buying 4 big boxes of Eggos they could get the same thing for a third of the cost. At $39/1K, that SAAver ticket would run them a cool $975.
Hmmmm...eBay, one of the great contributors to the decline of Western civilization
[This message has been edited by tovaz (edited 06-10-2001).]
Jun 10, 2001 | 10:37 pm
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These are the same people who spend $100's of dollars on Beanie Babies and Dale Earnhardt T-shirts. The "eBay addict" demographic and the "rocket scientist" demographic don't exactly intersect, do they?
Jun 11, 2001 | 12:33 am
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Jun 11, 2001 | 9:04 am
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<font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica" size="2">Originally posted by rmccamy:
These are the same people who spend $100's of dollars on Beanie Babies and Dale Earnhardt T-shirts. The "eBay addict" demographic and the "rocket scientist" demographic don't exactly intersect, do they?</font>
These are the same people who spend $100's of dollars on Beanie Babies and Dale Earnhardt T-shirts. The "eBay addict" demographic and the "rocket scientist" demographic don't exactly intersect, do they?</font>
Jun 11, 2001 | 1:31 pm
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My apologies for being a bit off topic, but the following website maintains an archive of some of the crazy stuff people have auctioned off at eBay. Kellogg's AA certificates are relatively sane by these standards.
http://www.whattheheck.com/ebay/
http://www.whattheheck.com/ebay/
Jun 11, 2001 | 2:22 pm
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Obviously, we have no way of knowing what the person who bid $78 for a 100 mile certificate was thinking. But maybe he didn't quite loose his mind. Maybe the person is not familiar with FF programs and thought that it entitles you to a 100 mile flight, or 100 miles of a flight (not that you would get off in the middle- rather, you use a number of cert's for one flight.)
In Canada and UK and maybe somewhere else there is a (lousy) program called "Air Miles" in which the number of "miles" needed is supposed to be the number miles travelled round trip. (The problem is that they think you fly about 1000 miles YYZ-LGA-YYZ!) Maybe this person thought that AAdvantage works in a similar way. Ignorant but not quite stupid.
In Canada and UK and maybe somewhere else there is a (lousy) program called "Air Miles" in which the number of "miles" needed is supposed to be the number miles travelled round trip. (The problem is that they think you fly about 1000 miles YYZ-LGA-YYZ!) Maybe this person thought that AAdvantage works in a similar way. Ignorant but not quite stupid.
Jun 11, 2001 | 4:28 pm
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I would highly advise anyone against listing or bidding on AA certs or Kellogg's AAdvantage 100 mile coupons on eBay.
First of all, AA will immediately send a warning letter or email to the bidder advising the offender that they are breaking AAdvantage policy. Also, AA could locate the winning bidder and make the certificates null and void...and worse, suspend their AAdvantage account. Even if the seller was not an AAdvantage member, they are jeopardizing the status of the bidders.
AA has one of the most stringent "eBay Police" and the consequences are certainly not worth the effort. Also, if you look at back auctions you will literally find hundreds of instances of people taking their eBay auctions down after they receive the AA email or letter. Several of them have posted the letter on eBay, verbatum.
The moral of the story is...it is not worth it because I would not want my AAdvantage account frozen...nor would I want to be responsible to be the one who had someone else's AAdvantage account frozen.
First of all, AA will immediately send a warning letter or email to the bidder advising the offender that they are breaking AAdvantage policy. Also, AA could locate the winning bidder and make the certificates null and void...and worse, suspend their AAdvantage account. Even if the seller was not an AAdvantage member, they are jeopardizing the status of the bidders.
AA has one of the most stringent "eBay Police" and the consequences are certainly not worth the effort. Also, if you look at back auctions you will literally find hundreds of instances of people taking their eBay auctions down after they receive the AA email or letter. Several of them have posted the letter on eBay, verbatum.
The moral of the story is...it is not worth it because I would not want my AAdvantage account frozen...nor would I want to be responsible to be the one who had someone else's AAdvantage account frozen.
Jun 11, 2001 | 5:59 pm
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<font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica" size="2">AA has one of the most stringent "eBay Police" and the consequences are certainly not worth the effort. </font>
(Just to set the record straight, I was just looking out of curiosity. I know better than to buy or sell coupons, especially on eBay.
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Jun 11, 2001 | 7:01 pm
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I couldnt resist. I sent an email to the person who bid the $39.00 telling her she could get waffles, etc. She sent me a very nice email back saying thanks and she did not know thats where they came from.