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Taking advantage of a poor school district during a recession is pretty sketchy.

• bmelton 18y ago
  I didn't see a link to the auction, but unless they specifically stated otherwise, how would a buyer know that a school was even associated with the auction. Furthermore, as posted in another comment, it's likely that the buyer didn't suspect anything -- similar to how freecycling is huge on Craigslist -- it's worth me giving it to you for basically free if it means you haul it away. Until I see different, I wouldn't be casting aspersions on the character of the buyer so much as I would on the intelligence of the lister.
  • falsestprophet 18y ago
    Of course the buyer and the school communicated after the fact. You don't think this came up?
• Dilpil 18y ago
  Actually, the way ebay works, he didn't neccecarily have to be taking advantage of them. As I recall, you set a maximum bid and an incremental bid, and ebay automatically outbids other people for you until your maximum bid was reached. He could've set a maximum bid of $60k, but, when no one else bid, wound up winning at the starting bid- which was set by the district at $1.
  • falsestprophet 18y ago
    He drove to the school and picked up the trailer.