"Shopping on eBay is supposed to be about finding bargains, and this summer a guy from Oklahoma ended up finding quite the deal. He was the winning bidder of a bottle of Allsopp's Arctic Ale in which the seller made a typo in his auction and spelled it "Allsops." The auction ended with very little interest and only 2 bids for the bottle that was obviously worth so much more than the winning bid of $304. And to make the mistake even more painful, that winning bidder turned around and listed the bottle again on eBay, but this time with the name spelled correctly, and got a whopping 157 bidders and a sale price of $503,300."
Submitted by stella - 2007-09-10 20:12:52
Channels - blogcadre
Tags - ebay
auction
DoMyStuff is essentially the Amazon Mechanical Turk for the offline world: Need your grass cut, dry cleaning picked up, computer fixed, fence painted, or groceries bought? Post it, and DoMyStuff hopes to find someone to do it for you.
Submitted by dreadsword - 2007-04-26 10:20:57
Channels - general
Tags - craigslist
ebay
domystuff
amazon
freshbooks



