http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/ eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&category=31411&item=5541309849&rd=1
That was up to $14,000 last I checked.
There is also a cnn.aim article on it here.
http://cnn.aimtoday.cnn.com/news/ story.jsp?floc=ne-science-10-l3&flok=FF-APO-1110&idq=/ff/ story/0001%2F20041204%2F2311590889.htm&sc=1110&photoid=20040 421CAPS101
Something I find odd, the article says it has 34 bids to get up to $78; but entry in ebay says it started at $78 and is up to $14,000 with just 2 bids.
Then there is also the feedback left behind by someone who visited that entry, "Hi. I thought I was bidding on your auction, but I think I might have been had: http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/ eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&rd=1&item=5541303695&ss ...more"
Do you think this is some sort of scam with multiple items being sold? I can imagine how tempted someone would be if they just sold a cane for $78 to put another one up with the same description and start it at $78 so that it looks like the same one still up for bidding.
Also, I have a question for any of you who know ebay better: there is a spot on that page in the statistics at the top which reads "Quantity: 1 lot (88 items each) ", what is up with that? Does that mean winning this bid gets you 88 items? I thought it was just the cane. Are there 88 of them to win seperately, which adds to the above suspicion, or is it just some sort of mistake?
This whole thing reminds me of the magical potato chip that sold for several hundred dollars on ebay.
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 Dec 5 2004, 6:16 am
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Dec 5 2004, 6:33 am
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THe first one is obviously not the same person as the second. Their habits and mannerisms and spelling are completely off. Both are morons scamming people, though. As for #1, nobody is that nice, and as for #2, nobody whose grammar is that bad, and who is that defensive can even possibly be the same as the first person.
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Quantity is basicly how many he has to sell. If you bid $8 you can buy two for $16.. Most of the time there is no losing bidders in large quanity auctions.
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Eh, they both sound like a scams. I'd bet even CNN was had, but I haven't seen the newscast, so I don't know.
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Yeah, and in the second one, it seems Mrs. Anderson, who's posted the bid under the username jay-deals4u is also taking donations through paypal to the address [email protected]. Sounds fishy to me. Not to mention the negative feedback on him/her whatever:
stick to selling shirts!! ZERO effort packaging, dirty, bad cord-NOT listed Reply by jay-deals4u: This dude needs medication!! Offered FULL-Refund O'well can't satisify everyone. Follow-up by fiftiesfan: You did not offer a full refund. I have your bad-tempered email. Need my meds? Sounds like a warm and caring guy to me. >.> ~X | |
I could not find the other entry, though I assumed another one to be in there somewhere. Where did you find the second one at?
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There are probably a good thirty or so of these listed now. Some even come with free shipping. I guess the ghost will bring the cane to you himself :P
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CNN wasn't had per say. Reporters nowadays don't do their research and end up making stupid mistakes.
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CNN wasn't had per say. Reporters nowadays don't do their research and end up making stupid mistakes. I'm not sure how that would translate to not being had... it only explains how they get had so easily. "If your mother says she loves you, check it out." used to be a reporter's creed. :P The age of instant information has changed that, though. If they sit on a story, they think some jerk with a weblog will blow it for them. | |
Har har, one actually includes a blurry picture of the 'ghost.'
CNN made a huge donation to the kids making these things, and y'know, good for them. If CNN is this stupid they deserve to lose all the money they can throw at the cane. I bet the reporter who normally does the farm report stumbled across eBay and read the first few sentences and ran as fast as he could to tell his boss. The great thing is CNN can't expose it without them looking like huge dingbats for believing it too. | |
True, but thats the reason I don't think all of CNN was had. I'm sure whoever wrote the article didn't check his facts too much or get approval of his higher ups because he knew he had to rush it.
I also just don't like reporters after all the stuff I've seen them write around this time of year about people who play video games (the christmas season would be the time where the 10 year olds get GTA games from their parents). Oh well, theres always Childs Play. | |
Yeh... Even if they feel compassionate about them, you just don't buy non-material things on E-bay. Well for one, e-bay will more likely to delete it than delete fake virgin mary-kate and ashley toast.
Might be mommy's time to call the exorcist. | |
Not his ghost, but his ashes!
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/ eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&category=19270&item=5541381476&rd=1 I love mock e-bay scams... They never fail to make me laugh out loud. | |
No, it isn't a bad demon. I've read whatever fake story they probably put together and have drawn this conclusion. The reason their "grandfather" is "haunting" the house is probably because he's hanging onto something. He doesn't want to leave yet, that's exactly why the tv turns on, off, and the lights act weird. It's most likely the fact that he wants to see his gandson grow up, someone murdered him and he's restless (but then things would be blowing up, not turning on and off) or he has some kind of animal, or some other reason; Basically though, he doesn't want to go yet.
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I don't think the mother actually believes the place is actually haunted. Her young son does. And I don't see where she said the tv turns on and off either. And he was not murdered, he died in his sleep (from cancer, I believe it said).
She just wants her son to calm down and she wants to make some money off it in the process. | |
She would be causing more trouble then a measily 400 dollars is worth. If she "passes" the spirit onto another person through something so stupid as selling it, then it could probably get restless and kill people. You have to watch out about these kinds of things, you never know what one wants to do.
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