[R-390] Re: Who Says Its Junk???

[Barry Hauser]

> Click on the link and you will see that the auction has been removed by
> eBay and is now "invalid item".
>
> That does seem unusual for a standard auction item to be removed from eBay
> records the next day after it supposedly ended. The seller could have 
> declared
> the auction invalid - perhaps someone made him a private offer he couldn't
> refuse and he ended it himself? Maybe someone will write to the seller and 
> ask
> what happened. 73 Todd WD4NGG


When a seller cancels an auction, the page is generally still there and it 
gives some sort of standard reason -- "The seller canceled the auction as 
the item is no longer available.:   ... or ... " due to an error in the 
listing." etc.  The blank page with the "invalid" business usually indicates 
restricted or forbidden items -- or a problem with the seller's epay (or 
paypal?) account.  The latter can occur if the credit card the seller has 
provided for automatically charging the epay fees declines a charge.  Also 
if the seller has committed some other infraction or other, I suppose epay 
may invalidate all of his/her auctions.  That might happen if someone is 
selling Wehrmacht WWII gear and including Germany in the offering --  
verboten.  However, I would think only that auction would be terminated. 
There are apparently a number of "trip-wires".

I don't recall, but was this the auction that also mentioned use of the 
R-390A through the Gulf War and the latest one?  (due to sandstorms, etc.) 
True or not, I don't believe epay invalidates auctions due to questionable 
historical factoids.  They'd have to shut down too many auctions and the 
stockholders wouldn't be happy.  (Is it OK to sell epay stock on epay? ;-)

Also don't recall anything mentioned about re-capping.

Barry