squinkle99
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posted on March 4, 2001 04:43:24 PM
There is someone selling the name of the Survivor 2 winner on Ebay. And people are bidding on it! The seller has ONE positive feedback and the bidding is currently up to $50.00.
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lotsafuzz
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posted on March 4, 2001 05:13:20 PM
Any mention on how this seller knows who the winner is?
I wonder if they will refund if they are wrong! LOL
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athena1365
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posted on March 4, 2001 05:21:12 PM
Looks like they already have a closed auction for the same information; only went for $53 so obviously nobody trusts them, or doesn't cares that much about who the winner is.
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squinkle99
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posted on March 4, 2001 06:28:34 PM
I seriously doubt that anyone who knows the name of the winner would be selling the info. Mainly, I was surprised at the number of people who actually bid on it.
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gravid
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posted on March 4, 2001 07:04:11 PM
It would be really hard to confirm the info as true and it is only useful before it becomes common knowledge. I can see going to the Elks or other Club and betting everyone in sight who it will be.
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tsunamii
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posted on March 4, 2001 08:49:45 PM
If I knew who the winner was I'd be selling my story to the National Enquirer for 150K. The guy who was selling the winners name for the first correctly named Richard Hatch according to a survivor chat board.
Karen
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quickdraw29
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posted on March 5, 2001 08:46:31 AM
Anyone who lives in the Survivor winners hometown might be able clue in if they won. Last year the National Enquirer reported Richard Hatch as the winner saying, "Hometown hero returns as Survivor winner." That was midway in the season. It was vague enough to cast a doubt whether that meant he was a million dollar winner though. I'm guessing this ebay seller is not 100% sure neither.
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yisgood
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posted on March 5, 2001 09:38:37 AM
Suppose he runs this auction a few times and sends each winner a different name. Then when those who got the wrong name complain, he refunds. In the meantimes, he gets to keep the proceeds from one of those auctions.
There was a great scam a long time ago. A guy sent out to a thousand people a stock tip. To half he claimed it would go up and to half he claimed it would go down. Then to the 500 who got the correct prediction, he sent a second tip. Again, half were told it would go up and half that it would go down. Then to the 250 who saw that he was right twice, he sent a letter that he had a great system and for $1,000 he would give them his next three predictions. If only 10% took the bait, he still made $25,000 for doing little more than mailing out some letters.
http://www.ygoodman.com
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sonsie
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posted on March 5, 2001 02:35:20 PM
Along those same lines, years ago the Los Angeles Times did a story about somebody who had advertised in their classified section (in the old "Personals" column) to hurry up and send $1.00 to a certain address...that time was almost up. This person received something like $10,000 from idiots who sent the money without ANY idea of what he was talking about! That was all the ad said...to hurry and send the money before the deadline! Nothing else.
I guess at least one sucker is born every minute, as P.T. Barnum said.
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rarriffle
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posted on March 5, 2001 03:36:01 PM
There is a letter that runs in some of the Enquirer type papers to send $3.00 for instructions on how to make thousands.
One of my sons was foolish enough to send in $3.00. He received a letter telling him to copy that letter, put an ad in papers, and send copy of letter to all that answered.
He checked with a lawyer friend of ours and it was perfectly legal to do this. Ethically shady at best, but not illegal.
Instructions were advertised and instructions was what he received.
A fool and his money!!!
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