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Posted at June 4, 2002, 7:32 pm:

Isn't it strange how people continue to bid on items that aren't the real deal? I'm an avid collector of Muffin the Mule items(1950s UK telvision and book character invented by Hayley Mills's Aunt,Annette Mills).
Almost every time I check Ebay UK,there is a small plastic mule described as Muffin,yet which is a different colour, shape etc and yet it has bids of 5-7 quid.They seem to appear every few weeks and it puzzles me as to how the public are foolish enough to bid without doing the tiniest bit of research.
There's one there now with £8.50 bid on it at the last look,
http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=1735653021
I have to say ,I find it annoying that people are being rooked like this,but it almost seems their own fault!!

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Have you asked the seller about it?

On this occasion no,although I have done so in the past,with similar i...

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I am not at all familiar with the "real" Muffin, so this "fake" Muffin...

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Thanks Treaque! Could you email me, when you get a chance? There...

I see no harm in selling fakes or replicas of any collectible, as long...

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