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Bizarre Auctions

sherbetbizarre: The provenance on those is rubbish!! Although they just about admit as much ;)

I would never have thought to advertise this if I had not heard about the person advertising their grandfather's ghost!!!

BUT

Several years ago I purchased a salt and pepper shaker (circa 1940). I was told that it came from the AMITYVILLE HORROR HOUSE. Whether this is true or not I do not know.

What I do know is that this salt and pepper shaker set is haunted!

I AM NOT KIDDING!

Every once in a while we find the shakers moved to a different spot...not a long distance...just a few feet.

And the scariest thing of all...

A year and two months ago we had the shakers on a small felt mat on my desk. One morning we found it moved to the other side of the desk and the word

"JODI"

written in the dust under the felt!

I was not sure what this meant until I realized that JODI was the "imaginary" pig that the little girl supposedly saw in the Amityville House!!!!!!!!!!

THE FIRST THING I THOUGHT WAS HOLY CRAP!!!!!!!!!

I did some research but could not find anything about the shakers.

These shakers have caused no good or bad luck but until I saw the Grandfather Ghost ad, I rarely thought about the salt and pepper shakers. Now I just want to get rid of them!

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Monday, December 13, 2004

Ad on eBay angers housing court judge



December 13, 2004, 11:59 AM EST

NEW YORK -- A Manhattan housing court judge said he was not amused by an advertisement on eBay that listed him for sale _ with worldwide shipping included _ posted by a disgruntled litigant.

The ad criticized Judge Jerald R. Klein for the way he dispensed justice and showed a photograph of him smiling, seated in the courtroom. It drew 6,400 and 21 bidders over four days.

"I'd like to know their rules for this," said Klein, who first learned about the posting from a reporter who called him at home.

"I'd like to know what investigation they did before they put this out there," he said in Monday editions of The New York Times.

An eBay spokesman said the company never investigates listings before they are put up for auction on its Web site. There are more than 30 million listings on eBay and 3.6 million are added daily, making it impossible for the company to screen advertisements, the spokesman said.

However, after eBay was made aware of the listing, it took the posting down, citing a number of rules that it said the ad violated, including misleading description, unauthorized use of a photo and unauthorized use of a name.

The ad, entitled "Judge for Sale," was posted last Wednesday by Janet Schoenberg, a disgruntled litigant in a landlord-tenant dispute in New York City Civil Court who said Klein was mishandling the case and that she had exhausted other ways of drawing attention to her case.

"In today's world, this is how people who are not celebrities can get their voice heard," said Schoenberg. She maintained, however, that she meant the ad as a joke. "I didn't expect anybody to actually bid on this," she said. "It was satire, it was parody."

She said that the judge himself was never for sale. In fine print, after accusing the judge of lying and breaking the law, she explained that her posting is a "work of art" and what was actually for sale was an audiocassette of the judge's proceedings, which are public record. She said the tape provided proof that she was being wrongly evicted from her rent-controlled studio.

After four days on eBay, the best offer for the judge was $127.50.

Klein declined to comment on the potential libel issues, saying that he would discuss his next action with court administrators.
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The cop, the stripper and the Holy Toast

A humble cheese sandwich with an image of the Virgin Mary apparently burnt into it sold for $28,000 on eBay. Jim DeFede gave the public a chance to test their faith when he escorted the 'icon' to its new home in Las Vegas

16 December 2004

I am on a mission, a holy quest. A week ago, a woman from Hollywood, Florida sold a grilled cheese sandwich on the auction website eBay for $28,000 (£14,500). The woman claims not only that the sandwich is 10 years old, but that it also bears the likeness of the Virgin Mary.

"I made the sandwich the way I normally do," Diana Duyser tells me when we meet. "Two slices of Publix white bread, two slices of Land O'Lakes American cheese. No butter, no margarine, no oil in the pan. And when I took a bite out of it, I saw her. It was the Virgin Mary. So I spit out the part I had eaten, and I put the rest of the sandwich in this plastic case my father gave me."

She kept it on the table by her bed for a decade, believing that its presence has contributed to her winnings of $70,000 at a nearby casino. But times have changed: her husband no longer works, the couple have no health insurance, and no one knows how much she has also lost at the same casino. After her father died, she decided to see how much she could get for it on eBay. "I was shocked," she said of the $28,000 bid.

The buyers are an Antigua-based online casino, GoldenPalace.com, whose owners live in London. They have bought the sandwich for the publicity. They have bought it as a stunt.

My task is humbler. I have offered to drive the Virgin Mary Grilled Cheese Sandwich from Miami to Las Vegas, where the new owners have sent emissaries to pick it up. They are thrilled with the publicity. Diana is pleased, because she wants her sandwich to do good work across America. As well as trying to gauge the public's reaction to the sandwich, I want an answer to the most important questions of all. Is this really the Virgin Mary? And if it is, why would she show up on a grilled cheese sandwich?

On Friday 26 November, I set out in a new white Cadillac Deville, rented especially for this trip. If this is the image of the mother of our Lord, she deserves nothing but the best. For security reasons, I have put her in a metal briefcase which, for the next eight days, will never be out of my sight.

My first task is to take it into a bar in the middle of the Everglades. "Look at that, there really is a face in it," the bartender says, as I down a beer and some fish and chips. A crowd gathers. "Yeah, but I don't know if it looks like the Virgin Mary," offers Vic Colemire, a Vietnam veteran. "I've never seen the Virgin Mary before. I mean, who knows what she really looks like? Let's face it, people will believe just about anything."

A fair point. What does the Virgin Mary look like? The folks in Clearwater, Florida think they know. Eight years ago, they believed that the image of the Virgin Mary appeared on the windows of a bank building. Tens of thousands of people came to pray. So many came that the bank had to close.

Now the building is empty, but people still surround it to pray. If anyone can tell me if the Holy Grill I'm carrying is truly an Immaculate Confection, these can.

"You can't bring that in here," Rosie Reed scolds me. "This is holy ground."

Reed is a Handmaiden of the Shepherd, a member of the religious sect that now oversees the Virgin on the Bank. It's clear that she doesn't want a competing Virgin Mary to draw attention, and possibly donations, away from her Virgin Mary.

I assure her I'm not interested in asking anyone for money. "Don't you at least want to look at it?" I ask. "Maybe it will move you."

I hold the briefcase open so she can see the Virgin Mary Grilled Cheese Sandwich (VMGCS). Reed makes a disapproving face: "I don't see anything." Then she says that if I don't stop showing it to people, she will call the police and have me arrested.

On day three, I hit New Orleans. I drive to the French Quarter and Marie Laveau's House of Voodoo, where a psychic named Reese has agreed (for $35) to study the VMGCS and divine its origins. I tell him nothing about the sandwich in advance.

"Oh, there's a face in it," he exclaims. "Right there. This is very interesting. I don't know how that person got in there. But that truly is a face, that truly is a person. I don't understand it." I've stumped the psychic.

I ask: "Do apparitions sometime appear in food?" He says: "I don't know about that, but it is something. Let me think about it." He closes his eyes and tilts his head back for at least 30 seconds. "Did the woman who made this sandwich ever lose a child?"

"No, not that I am aware of."

"This looks like a child who may have tried to come to her. The child doesn't look that happy, either." Pause. "It definitely is a child. It is trying to come through and tell her something. She might be worried about this. But that's what I am picking up, that she may have lost a child at one time and that she has always been sad about that child. But that child is okay, that's what I am getting. It is definitely a child's face."

"She thought it was the Virgin Mary."

"No, I don't think it is the Virgin Mary," Reese says. "I just think it is someone from the other side letting her know she's okay." I ask about apparitions again. "Spirits will get your attention any way they can," he says. "They want to be around you. They don't want to be forgotten."

I call Duyser. "He thinks it's a child," she says sceptically. "I don't think it looks like a child." However, she says she had a sister, Joyce, who died at just nine days old. Could this be the face of Joyce? Duyser says no: "I still think it is the Virgin Mary."

On the fourth night, I take the VMGCS to a strip club in Austin, Texas. Some might think this sacrilegious, but even Jesus used to hang out with Mary Magdalene. Besides, after four days on the road, I am feeling kind of lonely. "I'm surprised to see it here," one lithe young dancer says. "But thank you for bringing the message to a strip club." "My pleasure."

A pretty young woman named Maya sits on my lap. She says that in her hometown near the border with Mexico, there is a tree trunk with the visage of the Virgin Mary. "I didn't believe it till I went to see it," she says, her left breast snug against my chest. "But it really is there. It really looks like her."

The next day, I take the VMGCS to see a friend who works for the Texas Supreme Court. No sooner do I open the case than a crowd of lawyers and secretaries and judges appear. Even the Chief Justice of the Texas Supreme Court stops by, looks at the VMGCS, and says: "Wow." The way people reacted at the strip club is identical to the way folks respond at the Supreme Court. The only difference is that no one at the Supreme Court takes their clothes off in front of the VMGCS.

If this is the Virgin Mary, I think it's important that President George Bush should have a chance to see her. As we are in Texas, I take a short detour to the President's ranch in Crawford. Unfortunately, Bush is in Canada chastising the Canadians for not supporting the war in Iraq.

Driving through Texas, I am stopped twice by police for speeding. Each time, the VMGCS gets me out of the ticket. The officers are so amazed by it that they let me go. One, Patrolman Clint Cole, asks if he can hold the sandwich. He holds it carefully in his hands, and then shows it to the video camera on the dashboard of his police cruiser, so he'll have a record of him holding it.

I ask him if he believes this is the Virgin Mary. "I believe in God and all, but stuff like that, no, I don't think so," he says. "On every tree out here in these woods I could find you shapes and faces of the Virgin Mary or anyone else. It's like looking at the clouds; it's whatever you want to make out of it. But it does cause some faith in people."

Day seven. I stop at a laundromat in Tucson, Arizona. As always, the VMGCS is with me. "Oh, wow, she's beautiful," says Teresa Romero. She touches the plastic case and makes the sign of the cross on her forehead and lips. She touches the case again, only this time her lips move in silent prayer. "Maybe she'll grant my wish," she says.

What's she praying for? "For my son to straighten up. Since his wife left him, all he does is drink and get into trouble. Last night he came home and he said the police were following him. But why would the police be following him if he wasn't doing something wrong?" Before leaving, she pats me on the shoulder and whispers in my ear: "God bless you for bringing this here."

Another woman tells me she once saw the image of the Virgin Mary on a plate in her house. "It broke the next day," she said. "It shattered all by itself. My mom said [the Virgin Mary] was trying to tell me something, but then she must have changed her mind." What is faith if not believing in things that others may regard as foolish?

As I wait for my clothes in the dryer, Teresa Romero returns with her daughter. "Can she see it?" Romero asks. "Sure," I say, again opening the briefcase. "Oh, it is the Lady, isn't it," the daughter says. "Mommy, did you ask her to help me?"

Teresa's prayers were for her son. She looks at me and seems embarrassed, touches the case and again makes the sign of the cross. "Yes, I asked her to look after you," she tells her daughter. "Of course."

Then it hits me. What difference does it make if I believe this is the Virgin Mary? If Teresa Romero and others find comfort in it, if it gives them hope, if it causes them to think or act in a more spiritual way, then why isn't that enough? Doesn't that suggest that it does, indeed, have a certain power?

As I am about to end my eight-day, 3,300-mile journey, I receive a call from my cousin Alex, who lives in Los Angeles. He and his wife Karen have been married for 29 years and they want to renew their wedding vows. They tell me they want to do it with the Virgin Mary Grilled Cheese Sandwich present in Las Vegas.

Karen tells me the Virgin Mary has always been dear to her, because the Virgin Mary meant so much to her mother, who died 22 years ago. Even today, Karen wears the Virgin Mary medallion that her mother gave her. "She always prayed to the Virgin Mary," Karen says, touching the chain around her neck. "Doing this, renewing our vows with the Virgin Mary Grilled Cheese Sandwich, just makes me think about my mother. I think she would like this."

We meet in Las Vegas on the last day of my trip and go to a wedding chapel in a strip mall. The VMGCS is placed on a pedestal near the altar. "Wow, this is something else," says the Rev Juan Gutierrez, taking a close look. "Being a Christian, it looks like a figure of a person, and it does have the hair and everything. Except I've never seen the Virgin Mary without her halo."

So, is it the Virgin Mary?

"I wouldn't say different," he says. "Who am I to question God's thoughts? He works in mysterious ways."
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Look Uri - NO!!!!!!

Ur mine now Joe Toast



A SLICE of toast said to show the face of I'm A Celebrity winner Joe Pasquale was snapped up on eBay for £500 yesterday - by TV psychic Uri Geller.

Joker Guy Harris auctioned it on the internet for Band Aid 20, and got 37,000 hits.

Uri, 57, said: "I thought what a brilliant, fresh idea this is.

"Now that I own it, I will probably put it back on eBay and it will fetch £1,000 for charity."
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In the last month they've had the University of Exeter on e-bay. Since the Vice-Chancellor decided to close down Chemistry, Music and Italian degrees, a disgruntled student (probably a chemist) put the whole place up for auction. Before e-bay twigged and removed it, the largest bid was something like 30 million, and there were a lot of sarcastic comments attached (including more than one from our lab, no names mentioned). Oh what fun. And they're still shutting down Chemistry and Music.....
 
I'm surprised they'd axe chemistry; at my uni it's considered too much of a moneyspinner to ever touch. The sciences tend to attract beaucoup de corporate sponsors and other sources of cash, so they have rather an exalted position here. (same with the business school, though I agree with those who say that such programs belong in a college more than a university) By contrast, the building housing the various humanities departments (English, History, Classics, Philosophy) is one of the shabbiest on campus, with peeling walls, substandard lighting, etc. They don't bring in the money, you see; all these departments do is civilize people. :roll: The school is not shy about showing where its priorities are.
 
Another alleged Amityville relic

Another alleged Amityville relic:

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=5545243776&fromMakeTrack=true

This doll belonged to a lady that was murdered a couple of months ago. I bought her collection from her landlord who explained to me that this woman had no family to speak of and no children to give her things to. He told me that the lady was kind of crazy as he called her she thought she was a witch. She thought her dolls were her children and said that they understood her and that they could talk to her. I thought that was crazy to until I got her dolls. This doll has been said to have come from the famous AmityVille hous in longisland New York. I don't know how she got her. She said that the sole of a baby was trapped inside of it and you can here cooing comeing from the doll and sometimes you will here a baby crying when you are alone in the room with the doll I snaped some pictures of her and this is what i found on them. You can see in them orbs there is alot of energy around this doll and they are bright. I have circeled them. To see it better you can save it to your desktop and then enlarge it. These spirits let you know they are there . She is a very cute doll but alot of trouble and I can't keep up with these dolls anymore. I will be listing alot of her other dolls to until they are all gone.
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And something to show the kids next time they act up:

Kids naughty, so dad sells their gifts on eBay

Allan Turner
Houston Chronicle
Dec. 23, 2004 05:51 PM

HOUSTON - 'Twas the week before Christmas, and chaos did reign. The kiddies were squabbling. Oh, what a pain! Their language was shocking, their demeanor obscene. But to correct them was useless, you know what I mean?

So to the computer, Dad sprinted so spry. "There's going to be order, or you'll regret it," he cried. Then typing and clicking like wee, tiny elves, he summoned up eBay, determined to sell.

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Enough with the poetry.

There's not much laughter today at the home of a Pasadena information technology specialist who has decided to auction off his kids' Christmas presents - and possibly dismantle the family tree - because the youngsters, ages 9, 11 and 15, have been naughty, not nice.

"One thing we teach around this house," said the man, who asked that his name not be revealed, "is that good things happen to good people and bad things happen to bad people."

In Christmas' context, bad people get switches or lumps of coal - or lose the presents they want the most.

"BAD CHILDREN get no Nintendo DS. Santa will skip our house this year," the man announced in his eBay posting to sell three DS systems with PictoChat and Metroid. Also offered were three games for use with the system. "No kidding. Three undeserving boys have crossed the line. Tonight we sat down and showed them what they WILL NOT get for Christmas this year. I'll be taking the tree down tomorrow."

As the auction wound down Thursday evening, bidding was up to $255 - below the minimum price the man had set. Across the eBay site, 540 others were selling Nintendo DS items.

"If you don't buy them, we'll return them to the store," the seller known online as magumbo2000 reported on the site.

"These are normally really good kids," he said. But in a single day, he added, the boys fought one another, used vulgar language and gestured obscenely. The family discord has been in progress for about two weeks, said the man, attributing it, in part, to the laxness of previous discipline.

"It seems like we'd say what we were going to do, then bend and back off a little," the father, 41, said. "We'd ground them for a week, but they'd really be grounded for three days; we'd take away video games, but they would still watch television. ... It decayed to the point that groundings don't work, putting them in their room, timeouts don't have any effect."

The man said he and his wife announced the possible punishment in a family meeting earlier this week.

"We told them to think about what kind of brothers they were being, how they were treating their parents and what kind of men they were going to grow up to become," he said. "We told them they were destroying each other and the calm and peace in the household. It had to stop."

The boys pledged to reform, he said, but were back at their rowdy ways early the next morning.

"When two of them were together, they'd get along great," he man said. "But as soon as the third comes in, it's immediately two against one."

The next evening, a second family meeting was held to announce that the top level of presents - about $700 in video games - would be sold on the computer auction site. The oldest boy, the man said, responded with a challenge to carry out the threat.

"My first thought was, 'Oh, (expletive),' He's telling me to prove it. What are you going to do then?" the man said. "You can't just let the tail wag the dog. If this has a positive long-term effect, and it makes them better people, that's all that counts. I'm certainly not a vindictive, mean, evil beastie of a person."

The boys' mother noted the children increasingly have been disrespectful to her, their father and each other.

"We're on a very limited income," she said, "and we scrimped and we saved. You have no idea how hard it was to get these games for the boys, but I did and I was treated like crap. ... It really crushes me, but we felt like we had to take a stand.

"I kind of prayed that they (the toys) didn't sell on eBay."

Lane Coco, a Ph.D. social worker at Depelchin Children's Center, suggested that the embattled parents may have stumbled into an "ultimatum situation" in which everyone loses.

"Perhaps they should have planned some kind of activity," she said. "It sounds like the kids were bored with school being out. ... Sometimes parents let things go by the wayside, they're lax, then they really come down with something very harsh. It's really not fair to the children, or to them. They usually feel pretty lousy about what they've had to do."

Coco praised the family for its joint meetings, and suggested the parents might have asked the children for ways they could better get along.

"It sounds like the children are at a developmental stage where there is a lot of picking at one another and sibling rivalry," she said. "Making the youngest one the odd man out - that's not unusual at all."

With the situation in its present state, Coco suggested another family meeting in which the parents could assure the kids of their love.

"Maybe he could salvage the presents, take them off eBay," she said. "Get the kids to work with them, rather than fighting with one another. Try to form alliances with the children rather than coming off with this off-the-top-of-the-charts disciplinary thing."

One solution might be to have each child choose one of his gifts to give to a homeless child.

"That takes the spotlight off how bad they are, and turns it into something more in line with Christmas," Coco said.

The father said his wife has been in tears since the final showdown.

"I don't do it outwardly," he said, "but I'm crying on the inside."

Tears or no, he said, if the kids don't settle down, he will auction off the next tier of toys - a bicycle, fish tank and karaoke machine.

Although the man contacted the Houston Chronicle, promoting the tale as a "human interest story," he adamantly refused to be identified.

"In a city of 4 million people," he said, "do you think I want to be a Grinch?"
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Bound to happen sooner or later.
Naughty kids lose gifts to eBay

HOUSTON (AP) — The kids were naughty, Dad put the presents on eBay instead of under the tree — and Mom’s been crying ever since.

Now, even the tree’s down.

Saturday morning was sure not to be very jolly for three brothers — 9, 11 and 15 — who didn’t straighten up when their father told them Santa wasn’t too pleased with their fighting, cuss words and obscene gestures.

Dad and Mom had warned their sons that the Nintendo DS video system — and the three games that go with it — were headed for the auction block if they didn’t get their act together.

“No kidding. Three undeserving boys have crossed the line. Tonight we sat down and showed them what they WILL NOT get for Christmas this year. I’ll be taking the tree down tomorrow,” the man announced in his eBay posting.

“If you don’t buy them, we’ll return them to the store,” the seller known online as magumbo—2000 reported on the site.

Thursday night, the auction wound down with bidding at $465.01 — below the price the man had set. He said he would probably list the items again.
A single day of particularly bad behavior set the Christmas crackdown in motion.

“These are normally really good kids,” said Dad, who asked the Houston Chronicle not to reveal his name.

Dad even admits he and Mom are partly to blame for being too lax at times.

But enough was enough. The warning of an impending sale came earlier in the week at a sit-down between offspring and parents.

“We told them they were destroying each other and the calm and peace in the household. It had to stop,” said the man, who did tell the paper that he works as an information technology specialist and lives in Pasadena.

The boys pledged to be nice, but were back to their old ways the next morning.

That night, Dad announced that he would indeed be putting $700 in video games up for sale on eBay. The oldest boy double-dared his dad to make good on his word.

Son shouldn’t have done that.

Dad said Mom has been in tears since the showdown.

“I don’t do it outwardly,” he said, “but I’m crying on the inside.”
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Renigirl: I moved this over from the Xmas thread as I'd already posted a report on this here so we ma as well keep them together ;)
 
Eep!
Sorry Emps -- shoulda remembered this thread was here. [bashselflightlyinhead] Not sure how this works exactly, so don't want to sound presumptuous, but feel free to delete my duplicate if you feel like prunin'. :)
 
Renigirl: Now orries - its a different report so there is no need to remove it. You could throw in the link to news source though ;)
 
eBay gum! Look what's up for auction

Kirsty Scott
Monday December 27, 2004
The Guardian

It may be the thought that counts but when there is cash to be made from unwanted Christmas presents, festive etiquette is easily forgotten.

With the wrapping barely ripped from Christmas gifts, recipients had logged on to eBay to sell the good, the bad and the downright awful.

Among the putters and PlayStations on screen yesterday were a pair of ostrich egg earrings with a starting bid of 50p, some small plastic toys from (pulled) office Christmas crackers, and a wall clock in the shape of a tyre with a starting price of 1p and a scathing sales pitch: "Brand new hideous clock. This clock would make any house look crap. Buy it for someone you don't like."

Alongside a selection of tasteful ties and designer socks, there is a sparkly men's thong, size XL, which the seller says is too small. By late yesterday the festive underwear, with tags attached, had attracted no bids. There had been a handful of bids, however, for someone's brother-in-law, pictured and posted on Christmas day with a starting bid of 35p.

It has been estimated that the cost of unwanted Christmas presents reaches around £1.3bn each year. Research from the Abbey bank found that smellies and bubble bath top the list of unwanted gifts (48%), closely followed by novelty themed Christmas presents (30%), ornaments (23%) and the old faithful sweets and chocolates (18%). Lack of usefulness and sheer bad taste were blamed for most unwanted gifts.

It was in the festive season of 1999 that eBay first hit on the idea of auctioning off unwanted Christmas gifts, launching a special trade-me zone on its UK website on December 28. Site officials said they had been inundated with requests for a special unwanted gift section. This year the site will launch a free-listing day on January 8.

While etiquette experts recommend accepting dodgy gifts with good grace and effusive thanks, others say there is no shame in exchanging or offloading them for something you really want.

Sien Trang, of AuctionAssist, a leading eBay trading partner, said selling unwanted gifts was something Britons were becoming more comfortable with.

"In the US it is quite a mature concept, it has been going on for a very long time," he said. "It's only starting to make headway here. Culturally, people are a lot more conservative. It has the potential to be quite explosive once people accept that it is something that you do."

Richard Hyman, chairman of the retail consultancy Verdict Research, says the internet has proved a godsend in bringing together buyers and sellers of unwanted goods.

"Clearly a lot of people do get unwanted presents," he said. "The thing is that Christmas is a time when people feel obliged to buy presents for other people. Almost by definition they are not needs. More than half of what we buy in the shopstoday is wants-driven, not needs-driven, because we have already got most of what we want.

"Fortunately, I have not yet been given a clock in the shape of a tyre."
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Seems like they are still hunting cheap publicity:

Online Casino Buys Naughty Kids' Gifts


Dec 26, 9:34 PM (ET)

HOUSTON (AP) - An online casino that bought a cheese sandwich said to bear the Virgin Mary's image and a cane sold to banish a young boy's fear of ghosts has struck again - this time paying a man $5,300 for his naughty children's Christmas gifts.

The Pasadena man said last week that he decided to auction the three Nintendo DS game systems because his sons, ages 9, 11, and 15, had misbehaved.

The family's decision made national headlines, intriguing GoldenPalace.com, casino spokesman Monty Kerr said.

"Everybody knows Santa doesn't come to naughty kids," Kerr said Sunday.

The Antigua-based casino agreed to bid on the game systems as long the family promised to donate the proceeds to charity, he said. The family told him it will buy a new heater for its church and do other renovations.

The casino plans to donate the game systems to a needy Houston family, Kerr said.

The father, who has been identified only by his eBay seller name magumbo_2000, could not be reached for comment.

The casino has paid about $108,000 for eBay oddities in just more than a month.
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Who would have ever thought that seemingly innocuous baked goods would attract such attention from God and now they are evil?

Some people may think that the Devil is make-beleive, but let me tell you , mister he is not! How do I know? Because Lucifer has inhabited my peperoni Hotpocket. His face mocking the hungry from its delicious crust, teasing and cruelly taunting all humans with late-night munchies, for the hungry are weak.
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ebay auction for "LUCIFER'S HOTPOCKET
delicious but evil"
 
Ahh now come on - he is yanking our chains there.

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And talking of advanced urine extraction:

Man Auctions Water From Cup Elvis Used


Dec 28, 8:15 AM (ET)

By The Associated Press


BELMONT, N.C. (AP) - Wade Jones is a fan of Elvis Presley, but says he's not a fanatic. That's why - after a grilled cheese sandwich said to bear the image of the Virgin Mary sold on eBay for $28,000 - he decided to sell three tablespoons of water from a cup that Jones said was used by Presley during a 1977 concert.

"It's one thing to be an Elvis fan, but then you tell them you have this cup of water and they think you're a fanatic," he said. "I'm not like the people bidding on this water."

The water fetched $455 Saturday at the online auction.

Jones was 13 when he watched Presley perform in February 1977 at the Charlotte Coliseum, now the Cricket Arena. He says he watched Elvis drink from the cup while he introduced the band.

After the show, Jones went to the stage to snag a souvenir - perhaps a scarf that Presley would throw to his audience. When police wouldn't give him one, he asked for the cup and water. He stored the cup in a deep freezer for eight years, then melted the ice and transferred the water to a glass vial.

As proof of the water's authenticity, Jones provides photos of Presley during the concert in which several plastic foam cups can be seen on a stand behind him. Another photo shows Presley holding a cup.

"I'm kind of attached to the cup," Jones said. "I thought it was a little quirkier to sell the water."
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Lucifer's Hotpocket. FANTASTIC! I love the disclaimers at the end, so here they are....

"DISCLAIMERS
Due to the fact that some people are either idiots or attorneys- or, even worse, both, disclaimers have to be made. Amazing coincidence that stupidity and litigiousness go hand in hand, isnt it?
I guess we know this for a fact now- read on, gentle eBayer.

#1 This is a legitimate auction with a real, physical item. The winning bidder that fulfills the following requirements will receive said item and the tacit thanks of a small, anonymous Southern town.

Bidder requirements:
All bidders must either possess a feedback of 5 or greater, contact me prior to bidding or submit a 1000 word essay on the the global ramifications of first century Roman Imperialism in order to bid.

#2 This item is intended as a collectable, and not as a food item intended for consumption by anyone.

#3 Being that there is no acceptable standard or governing body that quantifies evil, aside from membership in the bar, the seller cannot warrent the specific level or index of evil of this particular item, though it is the owner's belief that the item is indeed trans-enspirited, possessed or inhabited by the forces of evil.

#4 Serious bids only- If you do not intent to pay, do not bid.

#5 This item will be shipped in accordance with U.S. Postal Service Publication 52 and does not in any way contain, or have any similarity to hazardous materials. The item will NOT be shipped in Dry Ice, but rather with US Postal service approved refrigeration/cooling methods to enable the dafe delivery of a non-edible and non-hazardous item.
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Ah now come on!!!!!

Viewing of Elvis' Cup Auctioned


Dec 30, 9:05 AM (ET)


BELMONT, N.C. (AP) - Miss your chance to buy some water from a cup once used by Elvis Presley? Don't be disappointed - now you can bid on a chance to see, but not own, the cup that held the water.

Wade Jones of Belmont, who sold three tablespoons of Elvis water on eBay last week, is auctioning a one-time appearance of the plastic foam cup that held the water.

Jones retrieved the cup and water after a 1977 Presley concert.

He saw Presley drink from the cup while introducing his band, Jones said.

The water, now stored in a plastic vial, sold for $455 on the online auction site Saturday.

Jones doesn't want to sell the cup, but he's willing to put it on display.

He wanted a minimum bid of $300, plus travel expenses, for an appearance by the cup, preferably on Presley's birthday Jan. 8. As of Wednesday morning, Jones had received one bid for $300.
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I made a mistake sending that link to a friend - they won't it so badly they'd kill for it.

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South Texans Hope to Cash in on Snow


Jan 3, 12:27 PM (ET)

BROWNSVILLE, Texas (AP) - A 23-year-old Brownsville, Texas man has put a three-pound snowball he collected during an unprecedented Rio Grande Valley Christmas snowfall on the eBay auction block.

Brownsville received 1.5 inches of snow Christmas Eve night and Christmas morning, its first measurable since Feb. 14, 1895, according to the National Weather Service.

"It's an amazing historical event," seller Oscar J. Garza told The Brownsville Herald. "They've been selling so much stuff on eBay I thought I'd get a good laugh and if I make a little money out of it, oh well. That's why I put a 'buy it now' price of $5,000."

Garza isn't the only one trying to cash in on the wintry wonderland.

Another seller was asking $250,000 for a bowl of Christmas snow from Corpus Christi, sold "as is" without warranty. After six days, there were still no takers.

Garza's ball of snow, meanwhile, was going for $5.50 - plus a $20 shipping charge - with five days of bidding remaining. Six people had placed bids so far.

"It's a basketball-size chunk and I have to send it in dry ice so it doesn't melt," Garza said. "Something like this is not going to happen again in our lifetime, the climate and the condition are not proper for snowfall so chances are we won't see this again."

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Information from: The Brownsville Herald, http://www.brownsvilleherald.com
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If You fear Satan Illuminati, don't look here

Well that is how this item is being marketed on eBay!!

Sounds like jolly fun I must say! :roll:
 
so diana rigg is a member of the satan illuminati? :confused:

(it must have been the leather catsuit that did it)
 
so its not beckfjord selling these items then? ;)
 
A follow up:

Colorado Company Buys Elvis Cup


Jan 5, 3:15 PM (ET)


BOULDER, Colo. (AP) - Nutballz, a cookie company founded by a snowboarder, says it has won an eBay auction to borrow a plastic foam cup its owner says was used by Elvis Presley during a 1977 concert.

The cup has already brought a measure of fame to Wade Jones of Belmont, N.C., who says he got the souvenir from a police officer after a show by Presley in Charlotte. The cup came with water.

"When I got home, I didn't know exactly what to do with it, so I put some Saran Wrap over the cup, put a rubber band around it, and placed it in the door of our deep freezer," Jones writes in his eBay posting.

Jones auctioned off the remaining three tablespoons of water, now stored in a glass vial, for $455, and came up with the idea of auctioning off a one-time appearance by the cup.

Nutballz, the maker of cookies free of wheat or refined sugar, plans to use the cup as a drawing card for its Jan. 25 fund-raiser to benefit the University of Maryland's Center for Celiac Research, which studies gluten intolerance.

"After 27 years, the 'Elvis Cup' will finally go on TOUR once again!" Jones says on eBay.

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On the Net:

http://www.nutballz.com/
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