$10 Million eBay Auction for General Lee
What would you do after spending $10 million dollars on a replica of General Lee from the 'Dukes of Hazzard' (a 1969 Dodge Charger, for those keeping score)? Disappear? Yeah, us too.
An eBay user going by the name of Fishbashr1 bid $9,900,500 dollars for the car, which would have been the highest winning bid ever on eBay. Since the end of the auction, Fishbashr1 hasn't paid up and is now ignoring all messages from the seller.
John Schneider, who played Bo Duke in the television series, put the car up to raise money for another movie and a vacation. He's considering legal action against the buyer; this means that there is still hope for his vacation, which will no doubt help us sleep tonight.
UPDATE: As of today, John Schneider has said he will put the car back up on eBay. Turns out Fishbashr1 says someone hacked into his account and bid on his behalf without his knowledge.
From TGDaily
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Barbara Kibler @ May 14th 2007 3:03PM
This may be how somebody got into this ebayer's email.
I have received numerous fake emails implying that they were from ebay and PayPal and saying to the effect that I needed to update my information or my account would be closed or that additional email addresses had been added to my account and to click on the link in the email. My understanding is that if I had clicked on the link and entered any information, I would have been giving the sender of the spoof emails the amunition they needed to go into my ebay and/or paypal accounts and do whatever they wanted. I have also received these spoof emails from banks, etc. that I had never heard of but they requested that I update my account information or my account would be closed. My advice is to never give private information via a link that you have to click on in an email.
jgagent @ May 15th 2007 1:07AM
I see the car is back up on the auction block....and this time with a charity component...very cool...I say lets break the 10 million mark with hits to the site...if we all donate a buck...can we drive it for a lap?...way cool