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.
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Doughnut seeds … ROTFLMAO
It doesn’t really look all that much like Illinois, in my opinion. And even if it does, so what? I, too, like the doughnut seeds remark.
The old saying, “A fool and his money are soon parted!” certainly is true in this case. But you certainly have to commend the two sisters for their entrepreneurial foresight. Hey…if they can pull it off, more power to them.
I, too, like the “doughnut seeds” remark. Quite clever, Mr. Johann!!
did you read in the paper that ebay removed the auction?
Allie: Yeah, I saw that, but they worked around eBay’s “no food” policy by selling a coupon good for a cornflake that is extremely ambiguously shaped like Illinois.
Zeeb: I really don’t blame the sisters- based on the P.T. Barnum principle- but more the ignorant masses actually willing to pay hundreds of dollars for a fuggin’ cornflake. And also eBay for playing the enabler role.
Makes me wonder about people’s priorities, though. People bitch about the price of gas and the cost of this and the cost of that, especially in this void-of-political-leadership state, yet they somehow can justify paying hundreds of dollars for a cornflake. A CORNFLAKE, folks.
The ol’ human herd could sure use a little thinning out. Release the lions!