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The e-mails were amazing. People thought that Bass was actually
bidding on these laughable URLs. Other people, with equally ridiculous
URLs sent Bass a plethora of messages to see if he might be interested
in purchasing some more shit. In less than 24 hours, Bass received
over 30 messages from Ebay users. A couple of the better letters
are here and have not been edited, so that the flavor is not lost.
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[No Salutation]
Please buy my domain names on eBay, CrazyPeopleRule.Com,
BarrierFreeHomes.net (title=Builder wanted for residential business),
and TheGreats.net (title= **Best millinium domain name **)
I see that you bid on all the stupid names for millions and people
leave
feedback about oyu being loaded and that they got a million bucks
from you, but I dont believe a word of it. I'll believe it when I
see it. If you really do bid on these stupid names and ACTUALLY pay
for them, please buy mine.
please reply, and please dont bid unless you are actually going to
pay
because if I get a bid on them I have to pay eBay a lot of money whether
the high bidder pays or not. Thank you. Please reply asap
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Dear Sir;
I sent you an e-mail earlier, and in my excitement, I misspelled a few
things. Allow me to start again.
I could not help but notice you are buying up domain names.
I have a site for sale...tilesofitaly.com, along with tileofitaly.com.
I too have my indirect competitors domain name, ceramictilesofitaly.com
and ceramictileofitaly.com. Assopiastrelle (info@assopiastrelle.it),
the national agency that represents Italian tile at International Trade
shows, in conjunction with the Italian trade Commission, with their
"Ceramic Tiles of Italy" pavilion.
There are no direct competitors to date. Also, I have numerous catalogues
from the major manufacturers of product never before seen in the US,
nor most parts of the world. And
a Business Plan, too.
In addition, I also have the toll-free number 1-888-web-tile.
Interested? [Note: this was one of three emails received
from this person. Persistent badgering wasn't enough to sway
Mr. Bass, though - he really wanted "livedinosaurs.com"]
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Even Zelekovitz got in on the e-mail action, after he had left his "threatening"
feedback on Ebay:
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To: sirtroup@hotmail.com
From: barricci@attglobal.net
RE: ass for sale
Date: February 7, 2000
i hope you having good time.and i hope you have a
lot of money.
because my lawyers will be in touch with you.i'm sure your parents
have
a house. soon it will be for sale.because ebay and me will sue your
ass.
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Bass was terrified at the seemingly unstoppable power of Zelecovitz.
Here he was, threatening to sell Bass's parent's house.
The magnitude of Bass's mistakes began to seep in and he wept.
What would he do when his parents were homeless? Moments later,
Bass laughed wildly, as if nothing had happened at all! He remembered
fondly when he was 13 himself, and had made the same nonsensical threat
to other unknown people on a popular BBS. Why, those people's
parents hadn't ended up homeless had they? Surely not, Bass mused
to himself. Surely not.
The fun was to be short-lived, though. Approximately
20 hours after Bass began his mission, Ebay sucked the wind out of
his sails. Bass's user ID was suspended (in fact, it was completely
stripped from the site) and all of his bids were rescinded.
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[Message from dante@ebay]
Dear ibuyshittyurls (sirtroup@hotmail.com),
We regret to inform you that your eBay account has been suspended
for the following reason:
* Using Any Mechanism To Interfere with eBay's Site and/or Operations...
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Bass was crushed. How would he ever be able to obtain such clever
domain names? Then Bass decided to go to work and create his
own domains. To HELL with Zelekovitz, Bass thought. And
with that, he went off into the corner with a notepad, a writing instrument,
and a bottle of Six-Grape Port.
¹Cyber-Squatting
is the process of buying up domain names and then waiting for someone
to purchase them.
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