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Re: Tesla coil on Ebay; 80-300' lightning?



Original poster: "Gerry  Reynolds" <gerryreynolds@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>

Hi Gary,

You are right. The link I used must have been stale. I wrote to ebay about this item and hopefully they can do something.

Gerry R.

Original poster: gary350@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
It is still there.  It has 5 days 11 hours remaining.




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>Original poster: "Gerry  Reynolds" <gerryreynolds@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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>Well,  it looks like ebay has pulled the auction.
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>Gerry R.














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>>Original poster: Mddeming@xxxxxxx
>>Guys!
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>>     It's total bunk!! His high eBay rating comes entirely from
>> selling concealed antennas for cars, etc., not from anything to do
>> with Tesla coils. It DOES NOT, and CANNOT, outperform the world's
>> largest Tesla Coil. Judging from the  "literature" shown with it,
>> it looks like it was built from one of those pamphlets sold in the
>> back pages of Pop Mechanics mags of the 1930s and '40s and
>> re-re-re-Xeroxed for the gullible of today by places like
>> Borderlands and other purveyors of "New Age" Pseudoscience.
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>>     To be very charitable, perhaps he IS selling it for someone
>> else, but eBay policy clearly states that the listing seller is
>> 100% responsible for every word in their ad. Hopefully, no one
>> ignorant enough to believe it has the money to actually meet the
>> reserve price and buy it.
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>>The fact that so many are willing to give it ANY credibility
>>indicates to me that we need to do a much better job of education.
>>
>>Matt D.
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>>Original poster: "Anthony R. Mollner" <penny831@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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>>It does look like it was made very professionally though.
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>>  Original poster: Mike
<<mailto:megavolts61@xxxxxxxxx>megavolts61@xxxxxxxxx>
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>>  Whatever the case, the guy has a 99.8% good rating from over 500
>> people he's dealt
>>with.  Perhaps one should not judge him too harshly.
>>Mike
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>>Original poster: gary350@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
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>>When I see things like this on ebay I always ask the buyer a lot of
>>questions.  The guy seems to be selling it for someone else so he
>>many not know much about what he is selling.  The seller has good
>>feedback too.  The owner may have stretched the truth a bit and the
>>selling might not know it.  I can not believe it will make 300 ft
>>streamers especially straight up on 220 VAC 30 amps.  300 inch
>>streamers would be more like it but I bet it won't do 300/12= 25 foot
>>streamers either.
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