It’s eBay time

First up for bid is an almost empty roll of TP:

I’m not even going to comment on this one. Ok, maybe a little… What would make you think someone would want to buy this?

Next, a Giant Marshmallow:

For $20,000 it’s also the most expensive marshmallow. They suggest showing it off, eating it, or catapulting it at friends. Naturally the catapult is not included. Also included in the giant marshmallow recipe so you can make more of these if you’d like.

Lastly, Google Email:

Here is exactly what the seller wrote, typos and all: “Send it to a frind or for yourself…You can get a Google Mail account if you are invited by someone who already has one What is Google I give Postive feed back to fast byers and slow lol……”

Last I checked, gmail is free and open to everybody. Is this guy TRYING to get sued by Google? Maybe he found a loophole in the terms and conditions?

That’s about it for this week - to see these and other stupid things, Click here for eBay!
 (There’s plenty more where this came from!)

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Last week I wrote about some people blatantly begging for money on eBay. Most people have some sort of sob story or might at least offer you a trinket such as a paperclip for a million dollars.

Here’s another example of blatant begging that was spotted by a favorite blogger of mine Ivyology.

Help this woman get a boob job:

I’m assuming these aren’t her boobs now, but the ones she hopes to get. She has been saving for years and still doesn’t have enough to get the breasts of her dreams. She could have posted a picture of her chest now so at least we could verify she really needs one. Yeesh.

Next, the Jesus Apparition Sandal:

This sandal is about 2 months old and after wearing it a few times the seller was creeped out that Jesus was on it an staring at him. Many people inquired about the other shoe - which sadly is apparition free. Despite the lack of an apparition on the other sandal, the sale does include both shoes.

Finally today we have a Mystery Spaghetti Recipe:

Again, is it too much to ask that the seller actually post a picture of the item you are bidding on? A recipe card, a picture of the made spaghetti…clip art of a cook and a frying pan just doesn’t inspire me to bid $150,000.  If you really want a spaghetti recipe, there are 300 FREE spaghetti recipes on AllRecipes.com.

Thanks again to Ivyology for sharing her eBay stupidity sighting with me. If you would like to share your own stupidity sighting with me, feel free to catch me on Blog Catalog, Entrecard.com, or MyLot. (If you’re not on MyLot you should join - not only is it good exposure for your blog, but you’ll learn a lot of new new things AND get paid while you do it!)

To bid on these and to see more stupid things, Click here for eBay!

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Today’s picks from ebay are so stupid they’ve inspired me to think of a new website idea. We could call the new site eBeg. People can register, post their sob stories and beg for money. At least the people who bought their silly offerings could get a tax write off. What do you think? Does it have potential for success? Do sites like that already exist and I’m just missing them?

Here we’ve got two goldfish making love for a cool million dollars:

Not surprisingly the seller was horrified and “cried for nearly a week” after seeing such a thing. This was not enough to prevent her from putting on ebay. She claims you can become famous by buying this, but I highly doubt that. Who the heck would care that you bought a goldfish cracker on ebay for an insane price? Especially when there are things like cyclones and earthquakes hogging up all the air time.

The next thing that caught my eye was this guy selling control of his life for one year:

Starting at $123,456 (there’s a creative price!) he will let you write a contract on what you want him to do for one year that he is obligated to fulfill.  How do we know he we really do these things? Last I checked slavery is illegal. What would you make him do if you bought this? I wouldn’t touch this one with a 10 foot pole because of all the liability issues.

If that’s not a dumb enough waste of money for you, there’s always this guy:

For $50,000 he’ll change his name to anything you want it to be for an entire year. I’m not sure what benefit you would receive from this - even as a word of mouth advertising ploy you could think of something a heck of a lot better for that price. Just because he changes his name doesn’t mean anyone will call him that.

I think eBeg could be a huge hit after seeing these things, how about you?

To see these and other stupid things for sale, Click here for eBay!

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Well, it’s already Friday and that means we’re due for another segment of “This Week on Ebay”. You may notice that I added a new feature to this site today. If you look over at the right side bar there is now a live feed of all the weird things on ebay. If you click on the title of the item it will show you a little picture of the item or you can click to go directly to that listing on ebay. Pretty nifty don’t you think?

Okay, enough about my latest blog accomplishments, on to what you’ve been waiting for:

Here we have a pair of New York Nuts:

Why would you buy your nuts in bulk from the hardware store when you could have these two lovely New York nuts? These are East Side Manhatten Nuts. Clearly these are not the only nuts on ebay…the bid is already up to $15 at the time of this posting.

Next we have an empty breadstick bag from the Olive Garden:

The Olive Garden is an Italian style restauraunt chain in the U.S. - Their breadsticks are very good. So why in the world would you bid $508.01 for this empty bag when you could go to the Olive Garden and buy a bag WITH BREADSTICKS for less than $10? Not to mention this thing will be reaking of garlic when it arrives since the seller ate the breadsticks on the car ride home.

Finally today I present you with the Exquisite Gum Wad:

This gum has been chewed to perfection and is clearly the most magnificent gum wad ever to exist! The seller then goes on to describe where her mouth has been and why you need this piece of gum to add to your collection. Good grief.

Well, that’s it for today - Click here for eBay!

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Today I thought I’d take a look at some of the unique advertising options you can bid on at ebay…

Our first option we saw was to advertise on this seller’s girlfriend:

For $500 she’ll wear t-shirts, hats, get a temporary tattoo or whatever else you can think of for her to do to advertise your product. I think she’s look great in a t-shirt that says “Best of Stupid: My boyfriend selling me on ebay.” I find it hard to believe a guy willing to sell his girlfriend on ebay would actually have a girlfriend…

For $200 you can advertise on this guy’s forehead:

I think “Best of Stupid” would look pretty good on his forehead, what do you think?

If neither of those options work for you, you can bid on this beautiful onion peel:

You get one stinky onion peel and an ad on this guy’s website…This could be useful if his website had more than 3 pages, some content, and a sad list of 3-4 other people who bought an onion peel. So you pretty much get a worthless backlink and a stinky onion peel. Is that a smart use of your advertising budget or what?

You know where you can go to see more - Click here for eBay!

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