Ebay cancelled all my coin auctions, now I am NARU! HELP!

"Frank Provasek" wrote:

Yep. This one appears to be the most recent "eBay is evil"
drive-by posting made from a Prodigy dial-up account.

Prodigy NEWS SERVERS are used by customers of bellsouth.net,
worldnet.net, ameritech.net, att.net, flash.net, nvbell.net,
pacbell.net, prodigy.net, sbcglobal.net, swbell.net, wans.net, and
snet.net

Quite true. But the posting IP address traces to a dialup account:

c:\temptracert 4.254.161.57
Tracing route to dilaup-4.254.161.57.dial1.phoenix1.level3.net
[4.254.161.57] over a maximum of 30 hops:
[...]

This is the same pattern followed by other "drive-bys" such as
"Aspen Coins," "Charles Woods," "Pastor Gordon," and "Sergeant
Newton," "Don," and "Ultracoin."

All coincidence, I guess.

--
Michael Benveniste -- (Clarification required)
Legalize Updoc.

On Jul 14, 3:08*am, Frank Provasek wrote:

This is certainly not true. *Like in all ebay categories, there are
good and bad sellers.

Fwanke, tell us again why you aren't an eBay "Power Seller" anymore.

On Jul 14, 7:15*am, "Michael Benveniste" wrote:


Quite true. *But the posting IP address traces to a dialup account:

There are still huge areas of the country with low population density
where only dialup is available,
(except for satellite)

A number of coin websites, as well as periodic mentions in Numismatic
News and Coin Word, mention RCC
as a good resource to find helpful people, I don't recall that ever
being true particularly, as newbies are
more likely to be viciously attacked and unlikely to ever come back.

The link to rcc here

http://www.telecoins.com/infodir.html

for example, will jump to outlook express which is often pre-
programmed by the setup disks supplied by
many ISPs.

I think the newbie posts are more likely to be authentic than the RF/
Ira and Reid/Phil troll baiting
that goes on here.
--
RARE COIN AUCTIONS NO RESERVES www.frankcoins.com
http://myworld.ebay.com/frankcoins Texas Auction License
11259, Board member of Texas Coin Dealers Association,
Member TNA, ANA, PCGS, NGC Full Time SInce 1991

On Jul 14, 9:14*am, Frank Provasek wrote:
On Jul 14, 7:15*am, "Michael Benveniste" wrote:

Quite true. *But the posting IP address traces to a dialup account:

There are still huge areas of the country with low population density
where only dialup is available,
(except for satellite)

A number of coin websites, as well as periodic mentions in Numismatic
News and Coin Word, mention RCC
as a good resource to find helpful people, *I don't recall that ever
being true particularly, as newbies are
more likely to be viciously attacked and unlikely to ever come back.

The link to rcc here

http://www.telecoins.com/infodir.html

for example, *will jump to outlook express which is often pre-
programmed by the setup disks supplied by
many ISPs.

I think the newbie posts are more likely to be authentic than the RF/
Ira and Reid/Phil troll baiting
that goes on here.
--
RARE COIN AUCTIONS NO RESERVES *http://www.frankcoins.comhttp://mywo...rankcoinsTexas Auction License
11259, Board member of Texas Coin Dealers Association,
Member TNA, ANA, PCGS, NGC Full Time SInce 1991

http://groups.google.com/groups/sear...child+molester

"Frank Provasek" wrote:

There are still huge areas of the country with low population
density where only dialup is available

According to the FCC, either Cable or DSL is available in 90%
of zip codes.

According to Neilsen, among active Internet users broadband
use has reached the 90% level in the U.S. eBay sellers would
qualify as active users.

AT&T/SBC's share of the dialup market is under 10%.

Nor does any of this apply to at least 3 of these drive-by's. "Aspen
Coins" claimed to be from Littleton, Colorado. "Pastor Gorden" claimed
to be from Smithtown, New Brunswick, and this poster claims to be from
Gila River, AZ. Broadband is available in all three areas.

So while the odds are large and growing larger, yes, it could be
coincidence that:
-- Each of these "drive-bys" use dial-up, and specifically AT&T
dialup.
-- Several cross-posted to alt.marketing.online.eBay, showing a
knowledge of Usenet despite being first time posters.
-- Most didn't even make a single follow-up response.
-- None post on any other web-based forums with more stringent
identify requirements.
-- None had verifiable recent eBay auctions.

I think the newbie posts are more likely to be authentic than the RF/
Ira and Reid/Phil troll baiting that goes on here.

That's a very low barrier to pass. The other trolls don't even claim
to be real people.

--
Michael Benveniste -- (Clarification required)
Legalize Updoc.

Michael Benveniste wrote:
"Frank Provasek" wrote:

There are still huge areas of the country with low population
density where only dialup is available

According to the FCC, either Cable or DSL is available in 90%
of zip codes.


Not that same as available to 90% of people.

On Jul 14, 11:49*am, "Michael Benveniste" wrote:

Nor does any of this apply to at least 3 of these drive-by's. *"Aspen
Coins" claimed to be from Littleton, Colorado. *"Pastor Gorden" claimed
to be from Smithtown, New Brunswick, and this poster claims to be from
Gila River, AZ. *Broadband is available in all three areas.


http://www.theinquirer.net/gb/inquir...sers-broadband


-- None had verifiable recent eBay auctions.

As I recall, all of them had recent auctions, or recently cancelled
accounts.

-- None post on any other web-based forums with more stringent
identify requirements.

The most recent poster is on the PCGS forum, but lists his city as
Queen Creek AZ, rather than Gila RIver.

You must have a lot more spare time than I do.

--
RARE COIN AUCTIONS NO RESERVES www.frankcoins.com
http://myworld.ebay.com/frankcoins Texas Auction License
11259, Board member of Texas Coin Dealers Association,
Member TNA, ANA, PCGS, NGC Full Time SInce 1991

It seems when you change from OE to Mozilla Thunderbird that the kill
file is not imported.

G
mk

On Mon, 14 Jul 2008 16:11:20 -0700 (PDT), Frank Provasek
wrote:

-- None had verifiable recent eBay auctions.

As I recall, all of them had recent auctions, or recently cancelled
accounts.

Or so they claimed, but with the large number of eBay "crawler"
sites out there (including Google) it's usually fairly easy to find
traces of a cancelled auction if it was up for more than a couple of
days. One of the auction numbers mentioned (300191108663) turned out to
be for an entirely different coin offered by a different seller.

-- None post on any other web-based forums with more stringent
identify requirements.

The most recent poster is on the PCGS forum, but lists his city as
Queen Creek AZ, rather than Gila RIver.

While I couldn't find the post at PCGS (and only one reference to
Queen Creek), don't you find that inconsistency a bit odd? BTW,
Queen Creek also has broadband available.

You must have a lot more spare time than I do.

Not really, no. I've just been keeping notes on this particular tactic
for a bit. There's only about one "drive-by" of this type a month. I
also have non-Usenet related reasons to keep track of market shares for
broadband and dialup.

In another one of those odd coincidences, SBC Yahoo! DSL offers
"unlimited remote dialup service," which makes it trivial for a single
SBC broadband customer person to post as dial-up users from different
cities.

--
Michael Benveniste -- (Clarification required)
"The hippies wanted peace and love. We wanted Ferraris, blondes and
switchblades." Alice Cooper

Michael Benveniste wrote:

"Frank Provasek" wrote:

There are still huge areas of the country with low population
density where only dialup is available

According to the FCC, either Cable or DSL is available in 90%
of zip codes.

According to Neilsen, among active Internet users broadband
use has reached the 90% level in the U.S. eBay sellers would qualify as
active users.

AT&T/SBC's share of the dialup market is under 10%.

Nor does any of this apply to at least 3 of these drive-by's. "Aspen
Coins" claimed to be from Littleton, Colorado. "Pastor Gorden" claimed
to be from Smithtown, New Brunswick, and this poster claims to be from
Gila River, AZ. Broadband is available in all three areas.

Gila River is a river and not a town. Google it.
How can Broadband be available in a mostly dry river bed?

George from Arizona and never heard of a "community" Gila River.


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