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:

"Let me begin by explaining some very important details, this way I do not get 100's of silly e-mails asking me to photograph the hind end of some stuffed animals," thedrunkensailor begins. "I DO NOT KNOW crap about these things. This belonged to my ex-wife who had about a 1,000 of these Beanie Babies and when she moved, this one box of these got left behind, and now I am selling the goofy little things. Whatever money I make from them will be spent at the local Home Depot on tools and other cool stuff."

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.