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Fake / Prototype Macbook Air

Molopo said:
I predict 10k+ within the last minute of the auction.
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With auctions that have been Dugg, or otherwise well publicized, the bid amount is often inversely proportional to the feedback rating of the bidder. As one goes up, the other goes down. And the likelihood of the seller actually receiving anything remotely close to the hammer price follows this principle. The auction is at $1750 now, and the high bidder has a feedback rating of 3; if it reaches 10K, which I strongly doubt it will, the high bidder will likely have somewhere between a -1 and a -5 feedback rating.

I predict a max actual payment of $2500 from a reliable bidder.
 
Well, we're in the last day of the auction, and while there hasn't been a lot of activity since the first coupe of days there are well over 200 people watching the auction so the last few minutes could be interesting.

I just want to thank everyone that offered ideas and wishes.

Any thoughts on where it'll end up?
 
brett33 said:
Well, we're in the last day of the auction, and while there hasn't been a lot of activity since the first coupe of days there are well over 200 people watching the auction so the last few minutes could be interesting.

I just want to thank everyone that offered ideas and wishes.

Any thoughts on where it'll end up?
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Well, keep in mind that at least half of the people watching the auction may be forum members from MR that just want to see where this auction ends as I am one of them watching the auction.

My prediction is $2500 but I hope you get more.
 
My prediction was $2500 when you first put it on eBay, but now I think we are looking at $1900 - $2100, which is still good compared to what you have paid. :)
 
HLdan said:
Well, keep in mind that at least half of the people watching the auction may be forum members from MR that just want to see where this auction ends as I am one of them watching the auction.

My prediction is $2500 but I hope you get more.
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Yeah I agree that most of the people watching it are just interested in finding out where it ends up, but at this point, only 1% of the buyers need to be serious bidders to make the end interesting.
 
brett33 said:
Yeah I agree that most of the people watching it are just interested in finding out where it ends up, but at this point, only 1% of the buyers need to be serious bidders to make the end interesting.
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How much are you hoping for?
I think I would have made it a 3 day auction because all the hype is gone....
 
Ironic said:
How much are you hoping for?
I think I would have made it a 3 day auction because all the hype is gone....
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I agree 3 days would have been better but it is at $1800 right now so considering I think he paid $700-750 for it, not a bad premium on it.
 
As far as what I'm hopig for, anything over what I have in it is great, so I'm already fine.

I put it as a longer auction in case the situation changesd as far as apple was concerned, and I did have contact, but I think they were more interested in finding out how it got out than getting it back because the contact was rather sporadic and they weren't that flexible as far as working things out.

So, yeah 3 days may have been better financially but I wanted to have the extra time.
 
So.

I ended up with a zero feedback winner from Russia, when the only shipping options are listed to the US. I'm clearly not going to ship this to Russia. How should I proceed.?
 
Next bidder. You move to the bidder who bid just before the Russian guy did. Now, did you specify US only? Because if not, if the guy pays you ship. Sorry. You can't just decide you won't ship if the person follows the rules. Pays and ships to a PayPal verified address etc.
Also cut him a little slack, it's possible he signed up just to buy this rare find.
 
jessica. said:
Next bidder. You move to the bidder who bid just before the Russian guy did. Now, did you specify US only? Because if not, if the guy pays you ship. Sorry. You can't just decide you won't ship if the person follows the rules. Pays and ships to a PayPal verified address etc.
Also cut him a little slack, it's possible he signed up just to buy this rare find.
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Where it asks you to specify shipping in the listing, I only specified to US, although I didn't type anything out on my own.
 
Well if he asks you to ship to the US and that is his paypal verified address you must do that. Contractually speaking. If he says "ship here" and that is outside the US and it is not his verified address then it is very possible to move to the next bidder. I would contact the winner and notify him that as per the auction you ship to paypal verified addresses within the US only as per your listing.
 
I would just wait and see if he pays. Also, if for some reason you decide to accept personal check/money order/western union/wire transfer/paypal (basically anything) wait for the money to be in your bank account and completely cleared before shipping (I figured you already knew that, but its better to be safe than sorry :) )
 
Ironic said:
you should have taken my offer of a SSD macbook:(
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yeah and he could sell the SSD macbook air for alot more money.

I'm surprised the final bid of 1800 won. I was expecting this to sell for 5K at least.

probably the long auction time worked against it.
 
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