the article says that the higher bid was withdrawn.

I actually think they got a good deal on the grilled cheese sandwhich... seeing as how they garned more than $28k worth of press... but this is farking retarded.

Just goes to show......

You can't hide money. :-D

in light of this thread being greenlghted, I guess I should correct the mistakes in my previous comment... lest I be attacked by the spelling/typo Nazis.

/sandwich
//garnered

fark me...

/greenlighted

hey, liters, excuse Poolio's spelling mishaps. he's a good guy, normally. too much to drink tonight, perhaps?

Anyway, i'm off to search my house for the Next Big Ebay Thing.

so an amazing, one-in-a-million grilled cheese gets 28k, a mom lying to her children about ghosts and afterlife gets 65k?

agreed with Poolio, farking retarded.

I gotta find me some spirit thingy to sell to on this here intarweb...

/Could use 65k

ha ha

I shudder to think that these things will be "ingrained in American history".

what a freakin waste of money.
shoot...

and how much income could an online casino make anyways?

The top bid was only 78 dollars last I heard... Did somebody else bid it up that high or do they just pay tens of thousands for anything?

If anything, this is creating an incentive for people to put more dumb crap up on eBay hoping to strike it rich. Expect the next few months to have even more insane items up for bid. We all thought we'd seen the worst.

The worst is yet to come.

And now, a free billion-dollar idea.

1. Buy the contents of one junk shop. The more various items, the better. All duplicate items will be put in storage, having only one at a time on the shelves.

2. Relocate said junk shop to a casino, preferably in Vegas or Atlantic City.

3. Call the place "Good Luck Antiques," "Lucky Charms," or some other title denoting that your one-of-a-kind items are haunted, blessed, or otherwise graced with supernatural power to give you an edge when it comes to luck.

4. Sit back and rake in the suckers' money.

Feel free to send me a check if you implement this scheme, unless it somehow lands you in jail.

Proves the old adage, "A licence to print money"
who else would waste 65k on a stupid cane.
Also proves the only thing needed to sell junk on ebay is a good story.

Jesus Christ, the thing was only around $400 when it last on fark; if only my stock portfolio appreciated that much.

That $65 Grand had better go to sonny-boy's college education. And a nice memorial for grandpa.

jojo-
Actually, the only thing you need to sell junk on ebay, is a story that will get you play on the internet which is then picked up in the mainstream media.

well, now we know where the giant cheeto and the wedding dress ended up too...

I seriously thought the submitter was kidding about it being placed next to the sandwich, but NOPE same freaking casino. losers.

fish-sticks: and how much income could an online casino make anyways?

one online casino just offered to front trump's casino a $400,000.00 loan, so some of them must be doing pretty good...

/bought $5k of trump stock a few months ago while it was in the low $.20/share range... closed out today at a value of $42,500.00

/still recommending Sirius stock (until jan 06)... got in on that one @ $3.75/share

UnFark:

That $65 Grand had better go to sonny-boy's college education. And a nice memorial for grandpa.


Amen. 12 years from now that kid better appreciate what his mom did.

Chelsea Clinton Is Carrot Top's Lost Twin:

one online casino just offered to front trump's casino a $400,000.00 loan,


make that a $400,000,000.00 loan.

drinkerofh2o:

I seriously thought the submitter was kidding about it being placed next to the sandwich, but NOPE same freaking casino. losers.

hardly. that's a cheap price to pay for the advertising they're getting.

86 results, including walking sticks, ghost cane bumper stickers and a purportedly haunted ghost thong.

just what i wanted... a haunted vagina. cool.

Did anybody see all of the fake auctions which also ended in the many-thousands-of-dollars range?

The actual auction is here.

Then there's one that ended at $75,000 which is NOT the actual auction; rather, another user copied-and-pasted the text of the original auction verbatim and listed it as a new auction; here.

Another user did the same thing, selling theirs for $15,000 here.

In both cases, the seller ended the auction early to sell the cane to the highest bidder before eBay caught on.

Chelsea Clinton Is Carrot Top's Lost Twin
hardly. that's a cheap price to pay for the advertising they're getting.

ironically, I paid no attention to the name of the casino.

Daaaaaamn....

I gotta open an online casino...

Why is it a cheese sandwich and this is worth so much, when the obviously much cooler Haunted Dolls sell so cheap?

Is that the cane from Citizen Kane?

Guess they just couldn't afford the genuine sword from the Sound of Music. Or the skull of George "Goober" Lindsey.

Does anyone happen to have a picture of the Virgin Mary Sammich?

Blessed are the cheese sandwich makers. Behold:

Wow. Looks like my idea of selling enchanted hubcaps online is going to pay off big time after all.

Deep Hunting, you, sir, are a GOD.

But now that I realize how much I miss News Radio, I'm sad. You, sir, might be a God, but you're also a jerk for opening an old wound...

That's it. I'm dropping out of the human race.

flim springfield

hey Philbb, read the farking article next time!!

Soon the Casino will acquire a cradle that the teenage carpenter Jesus built and the triangle will be complete.

/Praise be to Ebay, the great material continuum floweth like a mighty river. Amen

Wait, shouldn't Ripley's Believe it or Not! be buying this junk?

Did anyone else notice how, in the descriptive explanation on e-bay, the seller mentioned that after she moved her family to her father's house and did all this stuff for him, yadda yadda, he "died on [her]"? ("he died on me!")

Makes me think she made the whole story up. That kind of insincerity and odd coldness gives it away IMO....so she probably just earned $65K for nothing more than a story.

I dropped out of the human race a few years back...

Sure, it was fun for a while... I went to all the great parties, mingled with all the famous Werewolves, Vampires, and Creatures Too Terrible To Name... It was a real blast. Hell, one time (in a layer of Hell), I met Keanu Reeves (it's hard to notice, thanks to the makeup and special effects, but in real life he's actually a sixty foot high lava monster). I still have the skull he autographed.

But, eventually, I realized my life became hollow. I started Devouring Souls; not just at grand feasts to the glory of Yog'Sothoth, but alone in my studio apartment (of endless terror). Plus, I realized that I was letting down my parents: they were really hoping that I'd be able to succeed where my brother didn't, and actually join humanity.

One day, a friend of mine (a Warlock who sold his soul, but was still a part-time human) drove me to what he said would be a "great party"... Well, he lied; and I can't thank him enough for it. My family was there; so were a few of my old teachers, and even my brother. Sure, he was now eight feet tall with curved horns and cloven hooves, but I knew it was him. In fact, in that entire entervention, I think he was the only one to really get through to me.

He told me that I still had a shot at getting my humanity, and I shouldn't pass it up. He was right; humanity wasn't for him, but that did not mean I should just follow in his burning footsteps. He told me that he was proud of me when he heard I was close to getting my humanity; and that the moment he heard that I dropped out, he took a vacation from the Endless War, and clawed his way up from the darkest pit to the Earth's sunlit surface. He was the one who set the whole thing up...

Well, I listened to my friends, my family, and my brother, and I'm back onboard the human race. Sure, it might not be as glorious as it was in the past, and sure, there are dumps along the way, but I'm confident that I can make it.

So don't give up on the human race so soon.

PS: Well, ok, I'm lying... I don't really have a brother, or friends. But the rest is true.

PPS: I am eBaying my human skull chalice, complete with the autograph of the true form of Keanu Reeves (he can't really hold a pen with fingers of molten gold, so it just looks like a bunch of squiggles and burn marks). The chalice has actually been in a sub-circle of Hell (Hell's warehouse district), and still reeks of boundless suffering. Anyone willing to place a bid?

what the mother f

So they have streakers, the ball Becks misfired from Euro 2004, and an old piece of grilled cheese?


They should turn into a museum with all that weird crap.

Dear people from the town next to my hometown,

You are an inspiration to "The Region." Next time you come up with something so cute, so original, please involve me, I'd like a cut. Also please use the money to fund getting yourself out of Hobart and into Munster.

Sincerely,
A girl from Dyer

P.S. Have one of your friends write the letter to your son, no one wants a letter about their dead grandfather from an online casion.

Golden Palace strikes me as being to real casinos what "Big Game Hunter" is to real video games.

Red Space Dragon:

LMAO. Classic!