Thanks to Martin, I’ve become aware of the following Ebay gem:
http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=2987856612&category=1467
You’re going to have to rethink the marketing strategy on that one, if you wish to emulate it. No bids, you’ll notice.
when I need to find a dulcimer pick - I ALWAYS check the washer or dryer. I don’t leave them in my pockets, but Tom does. He swears that’s so he can “pick cleanly”! 
We also have lots of boxer dog hair in the lint catcher. Wonder if that’s of any value???
You know what dryer lint IS good for (serious here)? Starting camp-fires! My son is a member of Civil Air Patrol, and they are told to always keep a baggy full of dryer lint with them when they are on bivouac so they can quickly start a fire.
Missy
I’ll speak from experience here and recommend that you not buy from this seller. Last year I bought a similar item, and after I had paid shipping, I felt as though I’d been taken to the cleaners.
Jef
Dang it, darn it and the like.
Missed another great auction. Just too many to keep track of over there. I have been wondering why Martin has been here so infrequently, NOW we all know!!!
sigh…more conceptual art.
Hi, Cees! long time, no post!
I’m certain I can see an image of Elvis in that.
Although the above is a scam, a few years back on Canadian television an artist from Saskatchewan was featured on how he made art. He made it the dryer lint catcher, applying layers of colour with each wash, then cutting back through the layers…never knew what happened to him.
I found this on Google using “dryer lint”
A new kind of sculpture from the Michelangelo of lint
http://www.post-gazette.com/lifestyle/20011030lint1030fnp4.asp
or: http://www.studiocapezzuti.com/lint/exhibitions.htm
Enough!
MarkB
Are you joking? You don’t actually mean to tell us that you bought something like this off Ebay? 
I see the pun but I still can’t tell if you’re serious or not. If you aren’t serious, forgive me. 
Steven, Martin’s got the fiddler’s equivalent to WHOA…buying fiddles compulsively off Ebay and the like, and fiddling away at all hours of the day and night. He doesn’t play whistles as much anymore, so that’s why he isn’t here that often.
Weeks, thanks–it’s nice to be missed! Hi back! 
Trust me, Cees, when I say that I was fleeced.
Jef
Oh, and I forgot to add that I think Ebay should screen their listings better so as not to allow such atrocities.
Jef
You know, filter them out.
Somebody stop me… 
I’m exhausted.
Jef
OK, Jef, cut the fluff.
I think this story has been lent all the attention it deserves.
Dale, did I hear you right? Did you just say this thread has been lint all the attention it deserves? I don’t get what all the fuzz is about…
mox~
Gosh, the things people will do on ebay… this is weirder then the dryer lint.
http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=4162402706&category=1467
thank god there’s no picture to that..
Yep. There’s enough navel gazing around here.
Jef
And it SOLD! For £1.70, no less! There are some very rarified tastes out there.
I’m not speechless, but I have only 3 words…
fool, money, parted