>> audio cable at 400 euro for 1 meter !!!!!!???????

> It's unbelievably sad how mercenary and unfeeling sellers can be
> and how easily hoodwinked buyers can be. Walking around the
> mall last night looking for a gift I actually got quite despondent 
> at
> the amount of crap for sale

I sent this local (NZ) link to jinx a few days ago.
The main trouble here is that the seller has priced his product far 
too low. Sell it for $1000 and people would queue up to buy it. At $8 
or so it's obviously a steal :-).

I had headed this "Snake Oil energy saver on Trademe"*

        > http://www.trademe.co.nz/Browse/Listing.aspx?id=96593487

____________

* Trademe is a local ebay wannabee that recently made its thirty year 
old founder Sam Morgan many hundred million dollars richer recently.
Sold for $NZ700 million recently after having been started on a few 
10's of thousands of dollars 7 years before in 1999 (when Sam was 23).
NZ's most popular website (over 50% of NZ served traffic). His parents 
lent him ?$20,000 to get it going and got some 10's of millions back 
for their efforts. They gave it to another NZ philanthropist to give 
away - they had enough money already and didn't want the hassle of 
having to give away ?$30 million?

        http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TradeMe

Sam's father Gareth is a well known NZ economist

        http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gareth_Morgan_%28economist%29

BUT is better known worldwide for his long and interesting motorcycle 
tours. They are gradually touring the whole world by motorcycle.
This show what they have done so far, and what they intend to do in 
future:

    http://www.worldbybike.com/worldmap.asp

August - November this year appears to be Capetown to Cairo! (by 
motorcycle, remember).



        Russell



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