“I found my ex-wife’s wedding dress in the attic when I moved. She took the $4000 engagement ring but left the dress. I was actually going to have a dress burning party when the divorce became final, but my sister talked me out of it. She said, “That’s such a gorgeous dress. Some lucky girl would be glad to have it. You should sell it on EBay. At least get something back for it.” So, this is what I’m doing. I’m selling it hoping to get enough money for maybe a couple of Mariners tickets and some beer.”
The price is dropping. Down to $15,300 with 130 bids.
But, the hit counter is still going ballastic!
It’s moved more than 300,000 hits in less than an hour.
It appears the seller is disqualifying many of these bids.
6 hours left
Seconds ago, I just watched an interview with this guy, Larry Star, on NBC. The guy is a computer geek by day and a musician by night. And, a real comedian. He had the NBC anchor crew in stitches. He said the price went up to a million yesterday, but eBay officals said this was bogus and did something to make it more realistic–not sure what–and lowered it to $17,100 yesterday.
Tony, with 5 hrs. left, maybe people are bidding high as a joke, then withdrawing their bids. I now see eBay has added a qualification:
“Note: This listing is restricted to pre-approved bidders or buyers only”
I just tried hitting reload and within just a few seconds the counter jumped from 3,618,457 to 3,626,345 for a difference of 7,888. I think every time someone hits the refresh button, it adds one to the counter.
I was gone for about 15 minutes and the counter increased by 206,957!
Less than 25 minutes remaining…
Priced dropped to $6,350, 114 bids, 135 retractions/cancellations, the hit counter is over 5,603,000. That’s more than 250 hits every 3 seconds.
Looks like it was a real bid, too. absolututsth has a feedback of 80 or something like that so it’s not a throwaway account. Of course, it could be a hijacked account. Though come to think of it I doubt that anyone who’s hijacking accounts is going to waste them on fun stuff – they’re going to be going after somebody’s money.
Some folks and their money…
Well, all this guy asked for was enough for a ball game and a beer or three - looks like he can get season tickets and a couple of years’ ration of beer
I heard somewhere that the bidders were a bunch of divorced men showing support for the poor guy. I wonder if absolutsth was one of them.
Can you imagine what the next auction will be like, now that divorced women have caught on to this little game? It’s got to be a good story though, old wedding rings are on ebay all the time.
I remember last year people were selling dates on ebay. The woman who started it was from the same town as this guy…Seattle. I wonder if it was his wife.
Amazing so many people are still looking at the auction. It must have really hit a nerve. I’ve never tried linking a counter before, so this is just an experiment. EBay should be able to handle the extra load!
It just jumped about 40,000 between the time I wrote this and previewed it! I think it was 10,240,077 when I started.
