The Beanie Baby eBay Guy is back

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07 Nov 2003, 12:48 PM
Scourge

The Beanie Baby eBay Guy is back

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll...tem=2960748621

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You are buying a wonderful (Suitable for Framing and makes a great gift! Shop early, shop smart!)Certifiacte of Liquid Appreciation! Your offering of $1.50 will buy me a cold frosty mug of malted barley and hops at my favorite local watering hole. I will have a list with me at all times and I will toast each of you individually over time with each brewsky you buy me. For your kind and heart-felt contribution, I will send you this (did I already say this once?) ‘Certificate of Liquid Appreciation’. It will be HAND SIGNED and DATED by me the Drunken Sailor (A.K.A Steve).

I can assure you this certificate is 100% Authentic and needs not to be Authenticated by anyone. It will be copied for a total out of pocket cost of .03 Cents and folded in three, stuffed ever so gently in a cheap envelope, and mailed to you personally by me! I will not be licking the stamps, as a man in my position has people to do that for him.

AGAIN…you get a certificate and that’s it! It is worth .03 Cents, and you are paying $1.50 for it. All if which will be used in the above described fashion. Now I should add that a man can only (Ready for this?) drink so much. And thus any funds received above and beyond the amount that is safely consumable will be spent on POWER TOOLS!!!!!!!! YEAH!

Hurry, supplies are not really limited, but I am thirsty!

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Like I said. I will take these copies, stuff them gently into a envelope, and mail it to you. If you in the USA the shippiong will be .37 cents. IF your outside the USA, then you propably don't even speak this language, you can't understand what I am writing, and your horribly confused by all of this. In case you can..it will cost like .80 Cents. SHIPPING OUTSIDE THE USA WILL COST ADDITIONAL! PLEASE CONTACT ME FOR RATE INFO
07 Nov 2003, 01:04 PM
Critical Overdrive

MMM.... frosty suds... *drools*
07 Nov 2003, 01:26 PM
Videodrone

I'll have to see if I can find $1.87 in my couch. :)
07 Nov 2003, 01:44 PM
Captain Vegetable

BWAHAHAHAHA!!!

Looks like he typed this up after he got drunk with all that money the Beanie Babies netted him.
07 Nov 2003, 02:21 PM
Matt

Hey, check his feedback - it's hilarious. Looks like he's sold more than a hundred of the things!

*edit* - He's got a website too, apparently, where you can even buy "drunken sailor" themed merchandise:

http://www.thedrunkensailorsbazaar.com/art/thong.jpg
07 Nov 2003, 06:27 PM
bandit

Its a cheesy way of building feedback is what I see
07 Nov 2003, 06:35 PM
Gohron

This guy must be a real business man, just watch...in 10 years he'll be the richest man in the world:P
07 Nov 2003, 07:59 PM
Matt

A cheesy way of not just building feedback, but a pretty good chuck of money to boot! He's probably made a couple hundred bucks by now selling those cheesy pieces of paper.
07 Nov 2003, 08:11 PM
burgundy

It's because the feedback system is broken. Feedback should be measured in dollars, not number of transactions.
07 Nov 2003, 09:10 PM
Tones

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Originally Posted by burgundy

It's because the feedback system is broken. Feedback should be measured in dollars, not number of transactions.

I don't think this is fair either, because what if someone only a car worth $20k? Would you trust this person more than someone that sold $15k worth of $50 video games (one per transaction)?
07 Nov 2003, 10:14 PM
Videodrone

why doesn't he have a picture of his "hot" ex-wife on his site?
07 Nov 2003, 10:20 PM
burgundy

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Originally Posted by Tones

I don't think this is fair either, because what if someone only a car worth $20k? Would you trust this person more than someone that sold $15k worth of $50 video games (one per transaction)?

I'd trust them both. But for argument's sake, then both numbers should be shown.
08 Nov 2003, 12:18 AM
Matt

For taxation purposes, I'm perfectly happy that Ebay doesn't publicise how much the stuff I've sold is worth.
08 Nov 2003, 02:21 AM
Melf

Ebay should do like GTZ and hide feedback until transactions are completed.

Fucking retalitory feedback. :mad:
08 Nov 2003, 03:50 PM
Saint of Killers

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Originally Posted by Videodrone

why doesn't he have a picture of his "hot" ex-wife on his site?

He's not really divorced, he just made that up so he could have a good story. I posted a link to a newspaper article about him in the other thread.
11 Nov 2003, 11:52 AM
ssbomberman

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This man is a genius. He has made hundreds of dollars off of nothing. Genius I tell you. Shows how much you can really make off of ebay of you're smart enough.