February 04, 2008
EBay, Meet EGrift

Look, people, If you can't bring it home don't f'ing bid for it on Ebay:

Hundreds of people in the poor Romanian town of Dragasani have grown rich by conning eBay online auction customers with deals that seem too good to be true - and often are.

The scammers have even put the new town hall up for sale on eBay, the mayor admitted last week. “I mean, who would want it?” he asked.

Bonus: the classic trailer-trash momma quote, "He's just a good boy who got mixed up with the wrong crowd." I wonder if it's more poetic in Romanian?

Like most illnesses, this one seems to be playing out in the very young, the very old, and the very stupid.

Posted by scott at February 04, 2008 02:29 PM

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I'd automatically be (Timothy) leery of anything that said ROMANIA in the item-location line...but that's just me.

Posted by: Mark on February 4, 2008 06:32 PM
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