Goodbye, Treo 600

I finally posted on eBay an auction for my Treo 600, a 512MB SD Memory Card, a Vaja case, and a GPS bundle. If you read this blog regularly, you know that this phone served me well for the last 8 months or so. I'm hoping to get one Meeeelion dollars for it. But considering the phone itself was purchased for a low price from a friend, I'd be happy with a lot less. Anyway, aside from the auction, here are some nice shots me and my wife took of the Treo and the bundled stuff (with her Fuji S2):

Update: Well, wouldn't you know it! My auction went well, but the guy who won wanted to pay using bidpay. I had never heard of them, but apparently they use Western Union to transmit money. It looked legit so I said ok. But after he won and tried to send money, bidpay for some reason rejected the transfer. Twice. He asked to post it again so that he could start fresh and he would buy it and then try the same thing. I took a chance and did this. He bought it, tried to transfer money and again got rejected. Apparently this was the only way he could send money. He was located in the Ukraine. He had a perfect 60+ feedback, but go figure, this was the time his usual payment option decided to balk on him!

It reminds me of my first ever experience with eBay which soured me to it so much that I didn't use it for at least a year. It was back in 1997 and I sold an old VCR to a guy in Texas. I checked my bank account for days after I deposited his check and when I saw it listed, I thought it was a done deal. So I sent off the VCR. A week or so later I get a notice from the bank that the check had bounced and they were charging me $5. I wrote the guy who said that he was moving and so had to transfer money out of that bank, but put money back in so told me to ask them to try it again. I did, and the same thing happened. I tried reaching him again about it, but was not getting a response. I wanted a money order in order to guarentee payment. Finally he wrote back (this was probably about two months after he had won) to say that he was being harrassed and that I was somehow being a jerk for asking for my money. He said it was my fault for sending him the VCR before his check had really cleared! He said he still intended to send the money, but of course I never got either that nor any further correspondence. I even had a friend who was a lawyer send him a letter mentioning legal action if he didn't send the money, but still never got a penny. Thus I receive one of only two negative feedbacks on my account. The other one was from someone who bought something but never responded to several of my emails. I eventually had to give them negative feedback and of course they returned the favor. For this reason, I'm leary about leaving negative feedback unless someone does something really aggregious because it's almost a given that they will do the same to you, which will hurt your chances of selling things in the future.

Anyway, I had to go ahead and relist the Treo. This time I put a much lower Buy It Now price of $399.99, which is actually less than what the auction was won for last time. Here's a link just in case you still have interest in it:

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