Freddie Mercury's Roller rolls onto eBay

[mandy]

The late Freddie Mercury's 1974 Rolls Royce Silver Shadow is being offered for sale on eBay - complete with a man-sized box of tissues which the Queen singer's sister couldn't bear to remove after his death in 1991.

full article: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2005/10/12/...r_auction/
the auction: http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/Freddie-Mercurys-R...dZViewItem

[bargainbloodhound]

113 bids £35,100.00 so far.  Excitement. 

[stardust]

119 bids and $4,100,000 later: Obvious fraud.  What a way to ruin a perfectly legit auction.........

[jezebel]

I looked before it said 60,000 reserve met and now it says 46,100 reserve not met 

[bargainbloodhound]

[quote author=jezebel link=topic=795.msg3030#msg3030 date=1129234644]
I looked before it said 60,000 reserve met and now it says 46,100 reserve not met 
[/quote]

Kind of makes paying the fees to have a hidden reserve price rather pointless if the reserve can be exposed by a fake bidder.  :

[jezebel]

out of my price range £100,300.01 

[bargainbloodhound]

[quote author=jezebel link=topic=795.msg3091#msg3091 date=1129345203]
out of my price range £100,300.01 
[/quote]


maybe not, the price has tumbled again £62,600.00 is the current bid with 17 hours left .  I wonder what the record for most cancelled fake bids is for an eBay auction--this one must be getting close.  :

[jezebel]

Wow Bidding has ended for this item Current bid: £53,800.00  (Reserve not met) .  At least 20 cancelled bids during this auction.  :blinkie:  Read the comments

http://contact.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ShowAllQuestions&requested=loretta0708&iid=7552598326&frm=284&redirect=0&ShowASQAlways=1&SSPageName=PageAskSellerQuestion_VI

[amy]

The question is why are people still bothering to list high profile auctions on eBay?  Most of the recent high profile auctions on eBay have had the same type of fraudulent bidding.

Have a high profile item--go to Sothebys or Christies.