Reason #471 to hate eBay

Yeah, I don’t like eBay either, okay? Sue me.

Seems a couple of sisters from Virginia found a corn flake in their cereal bowl that approximately resembles a likeness of the state of Illinois and decided to sell it on eBay, the big internet ripoff auction site. Note the picture below; love the dime next to it for size comparison. Plus, they add that the corn flake “has not been retouched or altered in any way”. Like it really matters.

Last I heard, which was today on the noon newscast on 1450, some idiot hopeful bidder had bid close to $500.

$500.

Five HUNDRED dollars, folks. That’s five-zero-zero-POINT-zero-zero.

It’s a friggin’ piece of cereal. Not a case, not a box, not a bowlful- one single piece of cereal. Can’t really blame the sisters, other than being money-hungry enough to go through the trouble to try to sell a corn flake for money. Even so, there are, at last count, at least 46 people out there that are stupid enough to want to buy it.

Now I see the current high bid is $1,175.00. For one corn flake.

Holy crap, is there really any wonder why the entire world hates America?

I gotta go dig through the pantry- surely I’ve got a Frosted Flake in the shape of… something. I know I’ve got Cheerios- maybe I can sell them as doughnut seeds.