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yet another e-meter, this time for real

The two e-meters in the previous post were indeed sold on eBay. However, the sale of the first e-meter ended after one day–five days early. The sale of the second e-meter is curious too, as no picture was included in the listing. This may have had the effect of robbing Scientology of its only thin [...]

New E-Meters For Sale on eBay

And with a very low $50 starting bid! It’s an older model, a Mark VI, and from the looks of it as well as the description, used. Here’s the link to the e-meter. Here’s a screenshot of the listing, in case it suffers the same fate as countless e-meters before it. With so much attention [...]

traffic!

I never expected all this hoopla (and you can quote me on that!). The hoopla I’m speaking of is for the 45,000+ ‘unique visitors’ to this site yesterday, from Slashdot, Digg, Reddit, Guy Fawkes, and Emma, all to read my post on Scientology’s abuse of eBay’s VeRO system. You all caused me to lose sleep [...]

Scientology abuses eBay’s VeRO program to practice religious, price discrimination

By the time Bill (not his real name) left the Church of Scientology a few years ago, he had amassed quite a collection of Scientology material—mostly books, tapes, e-meters. But ex-members of Scientology (especially staff members) find themselves in a difficult spot in this regard when they leave Scientology: their books, tapes, and e-meters are [...]