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You forgot to add the $7.75 for shipping and $1.00 for the optional but probably necessary shipping insurance. But it is suitable for framing so add another $30 for that. I wonder how many he has?

LOL. Actually... look at his recent auctions. Now who is funny.. haha.. Yes.. what some people will do.

Lival, you caused me to go back and look at this again and I became fascinated with what I found. Since I wasted 1/2 hour of my life on this topic I thought I would publish the results.

First a disclaimer:

I am not an auction person and pay little attention to places like E-Bay except when it is referred to in an NG posting, so I am not "hip" to the joys of bidding.

I found in this particular case that we have a guy who apparently does a large business in mounting, on poster paper or something (not too thick because it is still "suitable for framing"), 8.5 X 11 pictures from catalogues and other hand outs from car/motorcycle dealers. These appear to be either originals or scanned copies printed on a "home or small office" type printer. The assumption that these are "home made" copies comes from his description of the product., the consistent size and also from issues raised in some of the very few complaints he received.

Right now he has over 100 items up for "auction" with about 10 bidders. Only 1 of the bids comes anywhere near the $7.75 shipping and handling charges. He has "feedback" from 849 (772 unique) buyers with only 18 negative and 22 neutral comments, the rest were positive. The negative responses I could view were split between "I just paid $7. to get a $0.99 purchase" and "it's a repro on poster paper". The rest of the responses were pure praise.

Conclusions:

I am in the wrong business.

The product is just a vehicle to make good money on shipping and handling. This guy learned well from infomercials.

"Lival" is correct, who's funny here? The sucker born every millisecond.

Or

Maybe he performs a real service for those folks who are to busy "bidding" on their computers to go to their favorite car/motorcycle dealer and get the brochure or poster of their dreams.

Maybe he performs a real service for those folks located at an Antarctic weather station who can't go to their favorite car/motorcycle dealer and get the brochure or poster of their dreams.

Maybe he performs a real service for those folks who don't know how to mount their favorite car/motorcycle brochure or poster on a backing "suitable for framing".

But for sure:

I need to re-examine my life if I have spent this much time on such a topic

Hmm... I am thinking trademark/copyright infringement