Get your very own Arbitron PPMs – on eBay. Current high bid - $51 for three of the units, and no doubt when Arbitron sees this T-R-I newsletter story, they’ll go here for the eBay listing and check out the serial number that’s plainly displayed for one of the units. Here’s a question – Who legally owns those three meters? My guess is that Arbitron does. The seller says, basically, that they fell off the back of a truck. The listing says “this is a recovery freight item” and that all three units are “new and unused.” If you’re the lucky high bidder, you’ll wish that the charger had also fallen off the back of the freight truck, since the PPMs have a very finite battery life. Of course there’s no way they’d be accepted by Arbitron as belonging to legitimate panel members. So the mysterious bidder identified by eBay only as “K***U” probably has some reverse engineering in mind, to see just what’s inside the gadgets. K***U began the bidding at $10.41 last Thursday, raised the ante to $20 yesterday, then immediately went to $35, watched a second bidder enter at $50, and raised to $51. The auction ends at 3:09pm today, Pacific time.
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UPDATE AND CORRECTION: The auction ends at 3:09pm Pacific time tomorrow, Wednesday 7/29. You still have until that time to bid! Click here for the present high bid amount.
