Terrorist buying UPS uniforms on ebay?

Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share
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I saw this on another board: http://www.disboards.com/showthread.php?s=&threadid=309614&perpage=15&pagenumber=1

"Okay, please tell me I am not going crazy or anything.
conspiracy theory,maybe?!?

UPS uniforms,shirts,pants,hats,jackets etc, all official stuff have
been
going for outrageous prices on ebay.

its who is bidding on this stuff that has me worried. for the past
month
its about 8-9 people,all new to ebay,all bidding only on UPS
uniforms,in
all different sizes,ex. (each seller is bidding on
medium,large,xxl,etc)
now totaling almost $45,000 in items.

now i think its suspicious so i called UPS and they dismissed it as
people buying halloween costumes early, but when I called the FBI they
took it a little more seriously and are looking into it.

then i saw on another message board where i post sometimes that
someone
else noticed ups items going for a lot of money lately so i thought
maybe i wasnt crazy after all for reporting this to the FBI.

I dont usually think the worst of things, but to me this smelled
fishy.and I would rather be cautious than not say anything at all.

am i crazy or do you think there is something to this??

it all started around thanksgiving when i heard that ups had put out a
bobble head doll and I was looking for one for my ups driver,when i
did
a search for ups stuff i saw how high some of the uniforms were going
for. It didnt fase me until I did a search a few weeks ago and started
to see some more outrageous prices $550 for a jacket,$400 for a
shirt,etc . I have been dealing with ebay for a few years now so i
did a
search on completed items and started to see a trend with all the high
bidders, they are all new and all only bidding and winning ups
clothing
items. I looked at all the completed items they won and saw a trend.
it
just started to look weirder and weirder. then with all the press here
in new york about 5 people possibly coming in from canada,etc and with
everything that happened on 9/11 I just felt like this didnt feel
right.

I was editor in chief of my school news paper and have always been
inquisitive so I guess I just went with my gut and researched and
researched some more on ebay and saw that between these 9 new people
in
the past month they have spent almost $45,000.00 only on ups clothing
items!!"
Here is one example: http://search-completed.ebay.com/search/search.dll?ht=1&query=ups+uniform&SortProperty=MetaEndSort

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Since I just cut and pasted the piece, I thought that I would comment here.

Personally speaking, it does seem odd that people are paying large amounts of money for crappy old ups uniforms. Even collectors wouldn’t pay $400 for a pair of UPS pants.

I know ebay bidding can get out of control. I sold some old junk once and people bid through the roof for old 80’s toys that I had hanging around.

However since 9/11 our paranoia has increased and every little thing now is considered suspicious.

What does everyone else think??

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On the bright side, it might not be terrorists.

It might be robbers! :eek:
<runs quickly, ducking as she goes>

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Or it could just be couples who are trying to add a little spice to their romantic life with a little bit of Role-Play.

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Or that they are being bought by a current employee or
lawyer for UPS who is trying to keep
that stuff out of the general public’s hands. It wouldn’t surprise
me if there is a “all clothing
is property of UPS” clause in their employee contracts, and UPS
is trying to prosecute any employees
or ex-employees selling the stuff. Just a guess.

Also I’ve been told UPS=United Pot Smokers

And that a lot of grunge type bands will wear old uniforms.

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That’s the first thing I thought of. Then I thought me + UPS uniform = wife laughing her butt off. Oh well… :frowning:

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Ya know… a UPS guy without his truck would be AWFUL suspicious.

And if the terrorists hijacked the ups truck, then they could very well steal the person’s clothing who was driving it.

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I don’t know about your UPS guy, but from the pics I’ve seen of Osama and his ilk, you could stuff 4 or 5 of 'em into our driver’s drawers.

9

Good Lord, what might they be planning with all the Fiestaware they’ve been accumulating?

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How it would work in my house:

UPS-clad welby: Hey, baby, I’ve got a . . . .package for you.

welbywife: I thought UPS only delivered big packages. Something that size you’d have saved money at the post office.

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I’m sorry, but if I can’t buy large quatities of UPS clothing over eBay without arising someone’s suspicion, then the terrorists have already won.

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There may be something behind this, though most likely not terrorist nor even robber.

However, looking through auction results on the third page, one finds that “masked” (means the person is either new or changed their ID recently) high bidder “googy200bonus” purchased at least five UPS workshirts, for a total exceeding $1,000. Another masked user, “HollowPhil,” has purchased at least two workshirts, for more than $300. In fact, it seems all the people who have purchased shirts or jackets have been ‘masked,’ and are limited to just three or four different buyers, for thousands of dollars of sold merchandise.

It’s rather weird.

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I wouldn’t be suprised if UPS was just an alias for a certain narcotic (United Pot Smokers as someone said), and they weren’t selling shirts but weed. I’m sure TONS of stuff like that is all over ebay.

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I like your thinking SuziQ. That seems very strange, and it’s our duty to keep our eyes out for the strange. At least that is our duty as far as the SDMB community goes.

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The United Pot Smokers idea sounds like a likely possibility to me.

Once (maybe a couple of years ago), I typed “smack” into Ebay’s search engine on a whim. I got back hundreds of results that said things like “Smack! Street grade!” and “Smack! 100% pure!”

I’m sure that they’ve gotten more clever since then.

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Suzie,

I mentioned this to my UPS driver, and he certainly didn’t think you were nuts. He said it was really odd for people to be buying UPS stuff at all, much less paying high dollar for it. (heh heh, he IS a UPS driver and all)

$500 for a regular shirt? Heck, he said he has several just sitting around the house, they get them for free from UPS, everything but the socks I guess.

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Something strange is going on all right. If we assume that it is real clothing being sold, then even if one person is buying most of it, a lot of people must be bidding to get the price that high, right? Are the various terrorists groups bidding against each other, and only the really well-funded ones winning?

If on the other hand, we assume that it is a code word for something more illicit, eventually some real UPS worker is going to be inspired by the ridiculously high prices into selling his or her laundry. That in turn will lead to a seriously disappointed buyer, and possibly even a dead UPS worker.

I can’t see anything but tragedy at the end of this one.

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Hmmm this is bizarre indeed. I wouldn’t be surprised if Splanky was right.

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To paraphrase the lady at the Houston FBI office: “Although it certainly is unusual, there’d be nothing we can do about it.”

Hm. Interesting, I guess…

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Would the 6’4 UPS hunk that delivers at my office please come back. I want to get in your uniform… OOPS i meant BUY it ! hehehe