deur1
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posted on April 27, 2004 02:43:43 PM
Check out this auction ~~ what a hoot or maybe it is just how much things have change -his description will make you "split your gut laffing"
Err - I do not know how to hyperlink
It is item 4146756343 on eBay
[ edited by deur1 on Apr 27, 2004 02:45 PM ]
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AintRichYet
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posted on April 27, 2004 02:45:56 PM
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=4146756343 ...
LOL... that IS funny!!!
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OhMsLucy
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posted on April 27, 2004 03:55:44 PM
Very creative guy. I can see why he got the marriage proposals.
Too funny... I just sent it to four people. Couldn't resist... I love the part about the hits and the odometer on his old beater truck.
Lucy
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stonecold613
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posted on April 27, 2004 08:59:00 PM
What do you suppose the FVF's will be on this one?
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BlueGriffinStudio
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posted on April 27, 2004 11:26:49 PM
DOn't know what the bid was at when you all looked, but at 2:45 AM there were well over 200 bids and the high bid was $99,999,999 - certainly a novel way to get even for five years of misery.
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fenix03
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posted on April 28, 2004 12:05:29 AM
And now you see the fall out of a too much creativity - the freaks come nou in droves and good people end up with problems like this. This afternoon bidding was at $1000
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If it's really "common" sense, why do so few people actually have it?
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aintrichyet
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posted on April 28, 2004 03:55:00 AM
Wow ... this auctions is getting about 100 hits per second! ... I would think this must have been on national news or something!
And take a look at the long list of bid cancellations ...
what a headache for the seller ... reminds me of that sailor guy that was selling his ex's beanie babies not long ago ...
this wedding dress guy will hopefully get a sincere auction winner, OR he'll have to re-do the auction with preapproved bidders.
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ehansen
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posted on April 28, 2004 06:12:24 AM
Wow!
I looked at it last night when it was 99,000,000 (or therabouts). Just checked it again and it was down to $300,000. I hit refresh a few times over a span of maybe 15 seconds and it leapt back up to $500,000.
The "administrators" and the seller aren't going to keep up with this, lol. The bids are getting entered alot quicker than the bid cancellations.
[ edited by ehansen on Apr 28, 2004 06:12 AM ]
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glassgrl
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posted on April 28, 2004 07:58:32 AM
he was just on the today show - I'm central time zone for those of you out west you might can catch it.
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jsaint
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posted on April 28, 2004 08:27:27 AM
heres another one, this guy is apparantly all about the moms.
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&category=317&item=3190310880&rd=1
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bizzycrocheting
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posted on April 28, 2004 08:32:51 AM
Amazing! The guy becomes a celebrity based on an ebay listing!
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bizzycrocheting
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posted on April 28, 2004 08:42:02 AM
By the way, what did he say on the Today Show?
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aintrichyet
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posted on April 28, 2004 08:42:33 AM
http://www.nbc10.com/news/3245813/detail.html
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glassgrl
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posted on April 28, 2004 02:26:45 PM
hmph! ebay let him edit the auction after the 12 hour deadline. he added more to the description and changed it to only pre approved bidders now.
suppose Meg called him personally after it aired on the Today show?
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TheFamilyBiz
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posted on April 28, 2004 02:59:37 PM
Just 40 mins left.... wonder what the final hit count will be? It's over 5 million now....
Wayne
Never explain -- Your friends do not need it and your enemies will not believe you anyway.
~ Elbert Hubbard
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aintrichyet
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posted on April 28, 2004 03:05:35 PM
omigoodness ... the price just finally went down again .... [i know they were battling it down this morning] .... gotta wish the goofus luck on this ... his '15 minutes of fame' LOL
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bizzycrocheting
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posted on April 28, 2004 03:11:36 PM
What's amazing is that all this guy wanted to do was sell his ex-wife's wedding dress and have a few laughs while doing it! No one could have ever predicted this!!! Wild, huh?
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sanmar
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posted on April 28, 2004 03:24:56 PM
With 23 minutes to go, the price is $6500.
00!! There have been 114 bids!! This guy is a hoot!! He could sell fridges to Eskimos. What a line of BS!!
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aintrichyet
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posted on April 28, 2004 03:33:54 PM
Yeppers ,,, he's got a good way with words ... he ought to at least get a great paying job with a bigtime ad agency or sumpthin'! LOL
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aintrichyet
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posted on April 28, 2004 03:34:38 PM
yikes... still sifting out the bad seeds ... bid down to 3 grand ....
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sparkz
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posted on April 28, 2004 03:34:43 PM
What I don't understand is the high number of administrative cancellations. The only time I've ever seen this type of bid cancellation was when Ebay would NARU a bidder and cancel all his bids. These people who have had their bids cancelled by Ebay in this auction are still registered for the most part. Any idea how and why they are picking certain bids to cancel?
A $75.00 solid state device will always blow first to protect a 25 cent fuse ~ Murphy's Law
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fluffythewondercat
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posted on April 28, 2004 03:42:42 PM
I'll bet most people missed this line way down at the bottom:
Buyer pays shipping and handling. Sale is final. Marriage isn't.
--
Answers to Questions Nobody Asked, #10:
Joseph Stalin gave up a promising singing career because murdering tens of millions of his fellow Russians sounded like a lot more fun.
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OhMsLucy
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posted on April 28, 2004 04:03:49 PM
All in all, a lot of fun to watch. I do surely hope he gets paid. Will be interesting to see what feedback is left.
My take on the administrative cancellations is he typed that in. There are wording differences and typos in quite a few of them.
Just a guess ...
Lucy
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aintrichyet
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posted on April 28, 2004 04:11:37 PM
Jeez ... there was even a mention of it just now on our dinky Akron, Ohio tv channel ... well... we shall see ...
i'm pretty sure ebay was fielding a lot of the cancellations early this morning when it kept jumping up into the million and hundreds of thousands ... i picture a huge oval table of ebay employees trying to contact the bidders by phone to see if they were serious bidders or not.
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sanmar
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posted on April 28, 2004 06:29:36 PM
This was shown on my local TV news channel on the 6:00 o'clock news. It even showed his face,. really got a kick out of it.
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sanmar
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posted on April 28, 2004 06:29:41 PM
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[ edited by sanmar on Apr 28, 2004 06:30 PM ]
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bizzycrocheting
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posted on April 28, 2004 06:34:55 PM
Gee, Sanmar, you're studdering! Are you drinking from Jack's bottle again? 
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aintrichyet
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posted on April 30, 2004 12:58:31 PM
Gosh, this listing will never die from lack of hits ...
till it's off ebay's database LOL ... incredible 11.3 MILLION hits ,,, so far
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tnernie
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posted on April 30, 2004 01:28:28 PM
Have you read the winner's "about me" page?
He's claiming he didn't bid on it....
In regards to the wedding dress, I have some sick friend or some practical joker coworker that decided to bid on this and splash my name over national TV. Please disregard this fact, I am a poor starving college student who cant even afford my own rent!
It looks like the seller is going to get screwed on this one. 
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aintrichyet
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posted on April 30, 2004 02:12:30 PM
Oh cripe!!! .. NO ... didn't see that ...
what a fiasco
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