Why the hell didn't I think of this first?

[Wookie]

http://www.telebid.com/

An auction site. Do not, I repeat do not (actually, I'll shout it for emphasis) *** DO NOT *** attempt to buy anything.
Have a look at the How It Works page and see if you can work out why.

 

[tek-monkey]

Scamtastic!

 

[Wookie]

They appear to have figured out a way to sell a Dyson Motorhead vacuum cleaner for £1130 and climbing.
And as far as I can tell, this is completely above board.

 

[Silverfish]

You *do* read World of Stuart, don't you?

 

[Wookie]

When he posts links to sites like this one, how could I not?
(I will post there. Eventually... )

 

[Toble]

They appear to have figured out a way to sell a Dyson Motorhead vacuum cleaner for £1130 and climbing.

Right. So the Dyson part takes care of normal household cleaning, and then Lemmy pops over to snort up any small piles of white stuff that you may have missed?

To quite the old Paul Verhoeven film: I'm buy that for a dollar!

 

[db]

hold on, have i missed something? this seems to just be a normal auciton site, but they have implemented the "anti-sniping" system that people have been asking ebay for for years

don't get me wrong - i snipe like a motherlover and hope to god ebay don't succumb to the n00b anti-snipe protestors - but it's hardly a "scam".. it just encourages fair bidding.. it's not the fault of the site if people bid up to stupid amounts..

the only dodgy part of it i can see is the stupid system of buying "bid credits", and getting charged for bids.. again, if people are stupid enough to pay up front for the right to bid, more fool them!

i predict that this site will die on its arse

 

[Wookie]

@DB: Think of it less as an auction site and more as an etailer.
Then work out what they're selling things for.