RDK Posted April 27, 2004 Report Posted April 27, 2004 http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewI...item=4146756343 Quote
Brandon Burke Posted April 27, 2004 Report Posted April 27, 2004 Man, this things really making the rounds today..... Quote
JSngry Posted April 27, 2004 Report Posted April 27, 2004 Ranks right up there with the "ass kicking" (or whatever it was) that somebody once auctioned off. Quote
Brad Posted April 27, 2004 Report Posted April 27, 2004 Man, this has got to be one of the funniest things I've ever seen on Ebay. 50,000 hits? That's amazing. Quote
Rooster_Ties Posted April 27, 2004 Report Posted April 27, 2004 Bidding isn't over yet. I'll bet he get's $900 out of this, which is at least close to what he paid (or sorta close). Quote
BERIGAN Posted April 27, 2004 Report Posted April 27, 2004 Can't for the life of me figure out why he has had problems with the ladies! He does have a sense of humor though.... Isn't the counter past a half mil? Quote
Eric Posted April 27, 2004 Report Posted April 27, 2004 Ranks right up there with the "ass kicking" (or whatever it was) that somebody once auctioned off. Although the wedding dress auction is good, I thought the "ass kicking" auction was an all-time classic. Quote
JSngry Posted April 27, 2004 Report Posted April 27, 2004 Ranks right up there with the "ass kicking" (or whatever it was) that somebody once auctioned off. Although the wedding dress auction is good, I thought the "ass kicking" auction was an all-time classic. Indeed! Anybody "save" that one in some form or fashion? Quote
Jazzmoose Posted April 27, 2004 Report Posted April 27, 2004 Indeed! Anybody "save" that one in some form or fashion? Seek and Ye Shall Find... Quote
PHILLYQ Posted April 28, 2004 Report Posted April 28, 2004 That guy was really funny- thanks for the laugh, RDK! Quote
chris olivarez Posted April 28, 2004 Report Posted April 28, 2004 That was incredibly funny. If that guy has more stories like that in his repretoire he should consider a career in stand up comedy. Quote
Rooster_Ties Posted April 28, 2004 Report Posted April 28, 2004 http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewI...item=4146756343 Looks like he's gonna make a killing on this. over 17 hours left to go, and the bidding is all the way up to US $99,999,999.00 - That's like a $99,998,799.00 profit, since they guy only paid $1,200.00 for it. Wonder if he takes Paypal?? Quote
Rooster_Ties Posted April 28, 2004 Report Posted April 28, 2004 Lot's more to read about this here... Link: http://forums.fark.com/cgi/fark/comments.pl?IDLink=931465 Half the reason a bazillion people saw this guy's eBay auction is fark.com. (Not all of the reason, but probably half.) Quote
Rooster_Ties Posted April 28, 2004 Report Posted April 28, 2004 (edited) Seller's payment instructions & return policy: Buyer pays shipping and handling. Sale is final. Marriage isn't. Nearly 1,700,000 unique people have visited this particular eBay page. I'm betting it hits 2,500,000 before the auction closes in just under 17 hours. Off to bed -- I'll find out in the morning... Edited April 28, 2004 by Rooster_Ties Quote
Big Wheel Posted April 28, 2004 Report Posted April 28, 2004 Is that how the counter works? I thought it counts every loading of the page as its own hit, regardless of whether the hits are actually coming from unique users. Quote
Rooster_Ties Posted April 28, 2004 Report Posted April 28, 2004 According to this (Link: http://pages.ebay.com/help/basics/e_honesty1.html), it's unique users... Honesty Counter FAQs for eBay Users Exactly what is a counter? A counter is a small image in the .gif file format that resides on your auction. The counter's purpose is to track how many people visit your auction to view your item. A graph on the Manage Counters page allows you to track these visits (or "hits") and tells you which days and the time of day people have visited your auction. To keep visit results accurate, the number on the counter added from the Sell Your Item (SYI) page only increases when a different person visits the auction. Clicking and reloading will not increase the counter number. How do counters actually work? The counter image is loaded each time the auction is visited. If the counter shows the same count, the current visitor is the same as the previous visitor. The counter number will increase when a different visitor loads the page. The reason the counters work in this way is to give sellers an accurate count of the number of users that viewed their item listing. Not quite 2 million unique hits yet, but pretty close: 1,967,000+ hits. Still, that's a TON of . I see the bidding is back down to $17,100.00 -- so eBay must have killed off a bunch of phony bids. Still, $17,100.00 seems pretty damn high, so I'm guessing there's phony bids driving the price up still. Maybe this guy will be in the next eBay TV commercial!!! Quote
Hardbopjazz Posted April 28, 2004 Report Posted April 28, 2004 (edited) This bidding is well over 600 thousand. I guess his wife will soon want her dress back. Whomever placed that high bid better hope the seller and ebay can take a joke. No way can it be a real bid. Edited April 28, 2004 by Hardbopjazz Quote
Rooster_Ties Posted April 28, 2004 Report Posted April 28, 2004 I've heard that this thing is getting mentions on tons of other media outlets. NBC had some sort of thing on the Today Show today, and it was on MSNBC's "News Countdown" thing last night. I'm sure some other networks are picking up on it too. Behold the power of that Interweb thingy!!! Quote
Rooster_Ties Posted April 28, 2004 Report Posted April 28, 2004 (edited) Holy shit, over 3.5 million unique hits!!! They've got the bidding restricted to "pre-approved bidders or buyers only" - so that should be the end of stupid bidders that don't mean business. Damn, the bidding's up to $15,300.00!!!!!!!!!!!! Amazing, simply amazing... Edited April 28, 2004 by Rooster_Ties Quote
Brad Posted April 28, 2004 Report Posted April 28, 2004 That's just incredible. I'm sure the seller must be flabbergasted. Quote
Rooster_Ties Posted April 28, 2004 Report Posted April 28, 2004 (edited) http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewI...item=4146756343 Check out the auction again. The item desciption has been updated. Among other things, comming soon: http://www.theebayweddingdressguy.com/ I guess the guy was on The Today Show (didn't see it). EDIT: Jebus -- almost 4 million unique hits!!! Edited April 28, 2004 by Rooster_Ties Quote
Rooster_Ties Posted April 28, 2004 Report Posted April 28, 2004 Here is a clip of him on a local news program... http://www.nbc10.com/news/3245813/detail.html And no, I'm not spending my whole day tracking down stuff about this guy. There's a bunch of links (including this one), in the thread on fark.com. I'm just copying a couple of them over here. Quote
rockefeller center Posted April 28, 2004 Report Posted April 28, 2004 Here is a clip of him on a local news program... http://www.nbc10.com/news/3245813/detail.html And no, I'm not spending my whole day tracking down stuff about this guy. There's a bunch of links (including this one), in the thread on fark.com. I'm just copying a couple of them over here. Yes, please take care of your Hello Kitty thread, too. Quote
Big Wheel Posted April 29, 2004 Report Posted April 29, 2004 It's all over...almost 7 million hits at this point. Winning bid: $3850! Quote
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