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QUOTE (lisa @ Apr 14 2007, 02:09 PM)
Sorry ViolinWriter, that describtion makes too much sense. tongue.gif

tongue.gif Right back atcha!

Elizabeth

 

Spring and love arrived on a bird's sweet song. "How does that little box sound like birds and laughter?" I asked the gypsy violinist. He leaned back, pointing to his violin. "Look inside, you'll see the birdies sing to me" soft laughter in his voice. "I hear them, I can almost see them!", I shouted as his bow danced on the strings. "Ah yes" he said, "your heart is a violin." Shony Alex Braun

 

As it began for Shony, it began for me. My heart -- My violin

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ViolinWriter Extremely Rare

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Edit as FPN kept giving me a "your post has failed, please contact administration" message. I had no idea I duplicated the post. Sorry about that Chiefs.

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Elizabeth

 

Spring and love arrived on a bird's sweet song. "How does that little box sound like birds and laughter?" I asked the gypsy violinist. He leaned back, pointing to his violin. "Look inside, you'll see the birdies sing to me" soft laughter in his voice. "I hear them, I can almost see them!", I shouted as his bow danced on the strings. "Ah yes" he said, "your heart is a violin." Shony Alex Braun

 

As it began for Shony, it began for me. My heart -- My violin

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Elizabeth

 

Spring and love arrived on a bird's sweet song. "How does that little box sound like birds and laughter?" I asked the gypsy violinist. He leaned back, pointing to his violin. "Look inside, you'll see the birdies sing to me" soft laughter in his voice. "I hear them, I can almost see them!", I shouted as his bow danced on the strings. "Ah yes" he said, "your heart is a violin." Shony Alex Braun

 

As it began for Shony, it began for me. My heart -- My violin

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shahrincamille Vintage

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And look at this Benz auction rolleyes.gif

 

 

Pity the poor sod who upped the bid to the current US$202.50, when you can get an exact one from James P for only US$130 headsmack.gif

 

 

Unless, of course, "Bidder 6" is a shill bidder lticaptd.gif

 

 

 

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QUOTE (shahrincamille @ Apr 14 2007, 02:54 PM)
Pity the poor sod who upped the bid to the current US$202.50, when you can get an exact one from James P for only US$130

But then you wouldn't be getting a Phillip Benz exclusive™! roflmho.gif

"For it is the Doom of Men that they forget." - Merlin, Excalibur

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QUOTE (shahrincamille @ Apr 14 2007, 07:54 PM)
And look at this Benz auction rolleyes.gif


Pity the poor sod who upped the bid to the current US$202.50, when you can get an exact one from James P for only US$130 headsmack.gif


Unless, of course, "Bidder 6" is a shill bidder lticaptd.gif



Shahrin cool.gif

There's less than 6 hours to the end of the auction and now "Bidder 5" had upped the ante to US$404.99 headsmack.gif

 

So it's true... There's a sucker born every minute!! lticaptd.gif roflmho.gif animal26.gif

 

 

 

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I had come back to the board to ask about exactly that same auction.

 

Apparently this guy is quite familiar with the phenomenon of 'anchor and adjust' valuation.

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QUOTE (shahrincamille @ Apr 15 2007, 06:34 PM)
So it's true... There's a sucker born every minute!! lticaptd.gif  roflmho.gif  animal26.gif

poor soul sad.gif sad.gif

 

or maybe mr. benz bid himself as a sort of stimulation for other bidders and advertising of his collection?

 

it is hard to believe that someone start bidding without looking for the prices on the market.

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QUOTE (metanomad @ Apr 15 2007, 06:46 PM)
I had come back to the board to ask about exactly that same auction.

Apparently this guy is quite familiar with the phenomenon of 'anchor and adjust' valuation.

Would that be dropping the anchor on the head of the unsuspecting, than adding a buyers premium to the already absurd charges for the wares referred to as The Benz Collection? ohmy.gif

 

Will buyers ever wise up to the "idiot tax" they are paying for these allegedly "rare", ahem, ummm, beauties? rolleyes.gif

Elizabeth

 

Spring and love arrived on a bird's sweet song. "How does that little box sound like birds and laughter?" I asked the gypsy violinist. He leaned back, pointing to his violin. "Look inside, you'll see the birdies sing to me" soft laughter in his voice. "I hear them, I can almost see them!", I shouted as his bow danced on the strings. "Ah yes" he said, "your heart is a violin." Shony Alex Braun

 

As it began for Shony, it began for me. My heart -- My violin

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I hate the way Ebay now hides bidder details on high bid items, but from the limited information bidder 5 seems to have been around a while unlike some of the others. Could he be a genuine bidder?

 

Even in the UK could have bought a couple of the pens for the current bid, in the US nearly 4 assuming he's not a shill bidder, don't people research prices at all?

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What exactly does supermint mean? And will it make my breath superfresh?

"The person who takes the banal and ordinary and illuminates it in a new way can terrify. We do not want our ideas changed. We feel threatened by such demands. 'I already know the important things!' we say. Then Changer comes and throws our old ideas away."

--Frank Herbert; Chapterhouse: Dune

 

Sic Transit Gloria Mundi

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I have bid on about three auctions of his. In all cases I was outbid. It might be shill bidding, but the profiles of those who outbid me all had a significant number of purchses, rather eclectic in nature. None of them seemed to be pen collectors, and none of the final bids were particularly high.

 

John

So if you have a lot of ink,

You should get a Yink, I think.

 

- Dr Suess

 

Always looking for pens by Baird-North, Charles Ingersoll, and nibs marked "CHI"

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