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warshawlawSomeone claiming to be Rick Kohl, the owner of BRSZ, called me today. Apparently, he got my number from Don Betz at VCBC. This fellow was quite different than the contrite person MSNBC interviewed.
He said that the shilled items had been mistakenly listed as no-reserve $1 opening items and that he was bidding to correct the mistake. When I asked about ending the auctions early and why he had not simply done so, he admitted that he knew of the process, then he changed the subject.
When I asked him if he had offered a $531 refund to the buyer of the 1959 set to assuage his conscience (he said that as a good Roman Catholic, the incident was bothering him), he claimed that he had no way of contacting the buyer who had paid him nearly $2,000 for the set.
He characterized ebay as a place to get rid of junk and said that he had no idea what the power seller program meant.