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Old 12-03-2002, 01:15 PM   #1
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The Best of eBay

I'm sure many of us have come across some weird and/or funny shit on eBay. I'll start:

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll...tem=2077099516

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<B>Athlon XP 2000+ Barebones W 256 Meg "WOW"</B>
This system comes with everything you need just Add a Hard drive. CD, floppy, Keyboard mouse Speakers Video Card and Monitor and your all set.
I think he's stretching the term "barebones" just a bit!
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Old 12-03-2002, 01:43 PM   #2
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Here's another good one.

http://cgi.ebay.de/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?...tem=2052699485

Even though it's in German, you can get the basic gist of it. This guy was selling a motherboard with CPU and memory on eBay ("everything you need", according to the guy above).

Unfortunately, instead of copying his own pictures, he linked directly to some on 2cpu.com -- a big no-no, especially for something like eBay where you're gonna generate tons of hits and suck up a noticeable portion of the other site's bandwidth.

So, the friendly folks at 2cpu.com decided to switch the pictures on him. Even better, eBay won't let you change an auction after it starts (only add stuff to the bottom), so he couldn't fix the links.

(Here's the two images they switched, in case the eBay listing expires:

http://www.2cpu.com/Hardware/thunder...xeon_close.jpg
http://www.2cpu.com/Hardware/thunder...board_shot.jpg
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Old 12-03-2002, 04:17 PM   #3
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This one's great:

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll...item=927013748

It's a picture of a cat looking at a picture of Enimem's house on eBay. Talk about meta-eBay.
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Old 12-03-2002, 04:59 PM   #4
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Oh my Gawd. Even funnier than the fact that this person is selling a picture of their cat, and a shitty picture at that (hello! it's called "color balance"), is that 15 people have bid on it, and it's going for $10.50!

Jeez oh pete.. I'm in the wrong business!
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Old 12-03-2002, 05:16 PM   #5
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Heehee

A reproduction of Benjamin Franklin's booger
I'm not sure which is weirder, the fact that there is an original, or a duplicate.
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Old 12-04-2002, 02:13 PM   #6
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Originally posted by Tobiasly
Oh my Gawd. Even funnier than the fact that this person is selling a picture of their cat, and a shitty picture at that (hello! it's called "color balance"), is that 15 people have bid on it, and it's going for $10.50!

Jeez oh pete.. I'm in the wrong business!
28 bids, for $1125.00 now.

And if you believe anyone will actually pay that, you've been taking hits on that big bong.
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Old 12-04-2002, 02:29 PM   #7
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A few of my favorites that I managed to save from a while ago.
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Old 12-04-2002, 08:51 PM   #8
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That stupid cat pic

Two Thousand One Hundred Forty-Seven Dollars???? (as of 2152 hrs EST 12/4/02)

I need to get a goddamn cat. Do you think I could use a stuffed kittty instead????

Oh, and I have to sell my scruples on ebay.
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