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November 12, 2003
eBay Antics - Beanie Baby Update
Have you seen the story that circulated on some blogs about a guy who wanted to unload a bunch of beanie babies on eBay? [via The Daily Rant (Jane), The Daily Rant (Jay), and The Fat Guy]
Here's some of the text from his eBay entry:
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He made out so well with the Beanie Baby sale that he started a second auction, asking suckers eBay users to buy him beer by purchasing a "Certificate of Liquid Assets."
Uh-huh.
It gets better.
Turns out the Dude lied! He's happily married. The guy -- real name is Steve - just made shit up for the fun of it. Word of his funny entry got around. He's had half a million hits.
Just goes to show you can make money off the Internet, and it doesn't have to involve porn.
I don't have an update (yet) about the woman who won those Beanie Babies and has sued him for misrepresentation (or some nonsense like that), but if I get wind of it, I'll definitely post it here.
P. T. Barnum would be proud of these people.
Posted on November 12, 2003 at 03:33 PM | Permalink
Comments
Bravo! I wrote to Snopes about this and hadn't seen anything yet on their site, but it really did sound like bullshit to me. I'll have to do an update of my post about this. Thanks!
Posted by: Elayne Riggs at Nov 13, 2003 2:36:33 PM