A rather strange ebay auction

[Jazzem]

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/final-fantasy-2_W0QQitemZ8218505649QQcategoryZ112762QQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem

Starting bid       &#A3;10,000.00

Erm, its rare, but not Metal Slug Neo Geo rare!

And I can't quite understand why he put this either...

PLEASE DO NOT BID!!

Despite the rest of the description being a completely normal ebay bid.

Still, not as bad as the person who put an unboxed N64 up for a starting bid price of &#A3;1,000,000!

[Shvegait]

Well, that is silly. Maybe they made an error in the price? I really can't see why someone would *want* to bid, though. And if someone's going to give you &#A3;10000 for a SNES cartridge, why would you not want them to?

[AstralLemming]

I think the the 'please do not bid' part is an attempt at reverse psychology...

[Isu]

And a very poor attempt by the looks of things.

[AstralLemming]

Exactly.

[Timballisto]

Hey.  The dude posted an email address for questions.  Who's up for asking him about the whole don't bid thing?

[Conway]

Done

[Jazzem]

Any reply yet?

[Conway]

hi

it was up for auction but as i had a very good offer for it i sold whch
means tht i no longer had the item so raised the starting price so no
one
wud bid

thanks pete

  That's what he said.

[Jazzem]

 That's what he said.

How bizarre. Isn't there a way to cancel an auction?

[Timballisto]

You know I wonder if the "good offer" was anywhere near what he put in for the starting bid...

[Conway]

How bizarre. Isn't there a way to cancel an auction?

  I asked him that and he said he's quite new to eBay so he doesn't know.