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Posted: Tue Apr 27, 2004 9:58 am
by Basic Pitch
My wife emailed me this link to an extremely funny ebay auction, the text is a little long but read the entire auction its well worth it. I wish there was more stuff like this on Ebay for sale
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?Vi ... 4146756343
Posted: Tue Apr 27, 2004 10:31 am
by Gordon Gekko
Posted: Tue Apr 27, 2004 10:47 am
by Counterparts
"Divorce forces sale"
Yup, you can find some mighty odd things on eBay...
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?Vi ... eName=WDVW
Royston
Posted: Tue Apr 27, 2004 12:03 pm
by hubird
.. Thanks to each and every one of you from the heart of my bottom.
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Posted: Tue Apr 27, 2004 12:28 pm
by paulrmartin
My sides and thoat are soar from laughing!
I needed that, Thanks Basic
Posted: Tue Apr 27, 2004 2:33 pm
by Immanuel
How do you guys find that stuff?
I never did that, but we may be looking for different things. Wich leads to the question: "what ............?"
Fun indeed - mostly the first one - the second one was a bit sad in my eyes.
Posted: Tue Apr 27, 2004 3:35 pm
by rodos1979
1st one is hilarious!
Posted: Tue Apr 27, 2004 5:25 pm
by astroman
the hit count for the dress increased by 500k in the last 2 hours
Tom
ps: a great server test, it currently gets > 1k hits per minute
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Posted: Wed Apr 28, 2004 4:45 am
by Immanuel
check the price!
Highest bid by a 1299 items 99,9% ebayer!
Posted: Wed Apr 28, 2004 5:12 am
by astroman
on it's way to the hall of fame approaching 2 mill hits
strangely, with the price tag it's not so much fun anymore - I've expected it to go pretty high, but that's
anyway, he has my full sympathy - one of the best laughs ever
and maybe the beginning of a writer's career ?
cheers, Tom
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Posted: Wed Apr 28, 2004 1:53 pm
by garyb
up to $15,000 and a new website.
Posted: Wed Apr 28, 2004 6:14 pm
by paulrmartin
"SOLD!! to the man wht the big nose in the back!"
(You have to say it fast and loud to get the full effect)
Dang! almost 6 million hits on that page!
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Posted: Wed Apr 28, 2004 6:46 pm
by Basic Pitch
Whats funny is,
I was talking about that with my wife today, she had mentioned that the auction gained such popularity that the guy was on the today show. Funny how a simple thing like a guy spouting off about his ex can lead to such good funny things.
Posted: Wed Apr 28, 2004 8:09 pm
by hubird
The News today told he's candidate president of the US now.
Posted: Wed Apr 28, 2004 8:49 pm
by rodos1979
On 2004-04-28 21:09, hubird wrote:
The News today told he's candidate president of the US now.
lol
Posted: Thu Apr 29, 2004 3:44 am
by krizrox
I saw this guy on MSNBC last night. Unfortunately I only caught like the last 15 seconds of the interview. He was wearing the wedding dress too. I suppose he's probably been on all the news shows by now. Jerry Springer is next.
Quite amazing how some schmuck selling a wedding dress on Ebay can become a star overnight. Maybe he will get his own TV show or record deal.
Isn't that where reality is sort of heading these days? Andy Warhol was correct. In the future everyone will be famous for 15 minutes
Posted: Thu Apr 29, 2004 4:28 am
by samplaire
Fuuuuuuuuuuuuu!!!!!!
On 2004-04-28 21:09, hubird wrote:
The News today told he's candidate president of the US now.
VROTFL
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Posted: Thu Apr 29, 2004 4:31 am
by samplaire
On 2004-04-29 04:44, krizrox wrote:
Quite amazing how some schmuck selling a wedding dress on Ebay can become a star overnight. Maybe he will get his own TV show or record deal.
Or maybe a polititian will hire him as a PR manager
The bad news is he would become some stupid nickname. I wouldn't like to be his son.
Posted: Thu Apr 29, 2004 4:40 am
by samplaire
The most important thing is it doesn't hurt anybody.
Besides - everybody has a profit from it:
1. The guy earned some money for the dress and became popular
2. People have fun
3. Ebay became yet stronger
4. Firms advertised on ebay are better known and increase their income
5. People selling things there have larger traffic
6. TVs, radiostations, newspapers etc...
The string is even longer, I belive.
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Posted: Thu Apr 29, 2004 4:59 am
by petal
On 2004-04-29 05:40, samplaire wrote:
The most important thing is it doesn't hurt anybody.
What about his exwife?
Thomas