TIME MACHINE ON EBAY!

Wild Root · Mar 25, 2005

Here it is boys an girls! What we have all wanted! This will give us all the chance to buy vintage brand new! No more moth holes and rips and small sized stuff! Think of the possibilities!

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=5563490518

This has got to be some kind of serious gag! Funny reading for sure.

Root.

ITG · Mar 25, 2005

Someone's Science Fair project from a long time ago? Man, I can't believe the bids are as high as they are.

Matt Deckard · Mar 25, 2005

ITG said:
Someone's Science Fair project from a long time ago? Man, I can't believe the bids are as high as they are.

You can never put a price on ones time.

Michaelson · Mar 28, 2005

I find this no worse than the rash of 'haunted' pocketwatches and clocks that have seen absolutely un-REAL prices on fleabay. Folks WILL buy just about anything, if you spin a good yarn....

Regards. Michaelson

jamespowers · Mar 28, 2005

Michaelson said:
I find this no worse than the rash of 'haunted' pocketwatches and clocks that have seen absolutely un-REAL prices on fleabay. Folks WILL buy just about anything, if you spin a good yarn.... Regards. Michaelson

Yeah, we are in the wrong business. Storytelling has its purposes.

Regards to all,

J

Michaelson · Mar 28, 2005

Amen to that, Bro! (grins) Regards. Michaelson

MDFrench · Mar 29, 2005

What a fraud - but I admit a VERY well written and conceived fraud!

Michaelson, you are right about the igits on eBay who pay through the nose for stupid stuff. I sell on ebay regulary under the name "mfhsolo" and right now I am stunned as I am looking at my account and seeing THREE people watching a set of party napkins I put online. Yeah, you read right - A sealed set of party napkins with Star Wars logos on them from 1997. Starting bid - $1.

People really will buy anything...

jamespowers · Mar 29, 2005

MDFrench said:
What a fraud - but I admit a VERY well written and conceived fraud!

Michaelson, you are right about the igits on eBay who pay through the nose for stupid stuff. I sell on ebay regulary under the name "mfhsolo" and right now I am stunned as I am looking at my account and seeing THREE people watching a set of party napkins I put online. Yeah, you read right - A sealed set of party napkins with Star Wars logos on them from 1997. Starting bid - $1.

People really will buy anything...

You must have described them very well.

Regards to all,

J

MDFrench · Mar 29, 2005

HOLY CRAP! Have you guys bothered to look at what the winning bidder has been buying?! Check his feedback and just click the first few items! Over $1,000 for a DORITO that just happens to look like the Pope's hat!

I'm not kidding!!!!
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&category=1467&item=5565234667

THIS guy is the craziest Ebayer I have ever seen...

Wild Root · Mar 29, 2005

Yeah MD, I saw that and just about passed out! That's way to much for a stupid corn chip! I could get my car painted for that price. Be funny to go into that guys house and say: Oh, cool, corn chips! And then pop it into your mouth! That's the most expensive chip in the world! What a laugh Deluxe!

Root.

Canadave · Mar 29, 2005

I'll bet all those bidders are the guy's friends, and the winner won't have to pay up. It just made a good story.

David

IndianaGuybrush · Mar 30, 2005

Apparently the winning bidder is a Casino that buys crazy eBay auctions up for the 'free' advertising. They figure that they get so much coverage for buying wacky items on eBay, and their name gets mentioned so many times in the article, that it's cheaper than actually launching an advertising campaign. if you look at their other auctions they've also tended to buy advertising space on model's bodies. Weird.

Wild Root · Mar 30, 2005

Yeah, I saw that too.

This world is just to crazy for me. Give me the good old days again!

Root.

Pyroxene · Mar 30, 2005

Michaelson said:
I find this no worse than the rash of 'haunted' pocketwatches and clocks that have seen absolutely un-REAL prices on fleabay. Folks WILL buy just about anything, if you spin a good yarn.... Regards. Michaelson

Which reminds me...I need to sell my Palm III that summons Locomotive 661 from the deadly crash at Pine Bluff.

Go figure.

I get a kick out of the stuff Rob from www.cockeyed.com puts out.

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=5761297310

Rumpled Fedora · Mar 31, 2005

Ha, here's one.
"8 weeks of verbal abuse - insults via telephone"! From this guy.
Starting bid: $420

jamespowers · Apr 1, 2005

Rumpled Fedora said:
Ha, here's one.
"8 weeks of verbal abuse - insults via telephone"! From this guy.
Starting bid: $420

Geez, one can call up one's mother-in-law for free.

Regards to all,

J

BellyTank · Apr 1, 2005

The ultimate GoldenPalaceCasino purchase-

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&category=20135&item=7306480997

BT

Flitcraft · Apr 1, 2005

Wow! Thanks for posting.
I nearly fell out of my chair laughing!
Gonna have to stop reading Fedora Lounge at work.
Really love the Q & A section at the bottom of the listing.

jamespowers · Apr 1, 2005

Well, it is time for me to get out my old crayons or maybe a spray can.

Regards to all,

J

ITG · Apr 2, 2005

What's even more funny is they bought it!!!! The other morning our local news station showed something/someone that Goldenpalace.com had bought on ebay. I was in the kitchen and my ears perked up at the end when I heard Goldenpalace.com

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