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Re: eBay Prank - Please Help
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Date: 
Wed, 2 Aug 2000 19:56:05 GMT
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In lugnet.off-topic.fun, Doug Finney writes:
[...]
A bit more background: I'm a contributor for a humor mailing list (see
http://www.topfive.com ), as is the mustard seller. The packet has already
received one bid but I'm pretty sure it's from another contributor. What
better way to freak him out, I figure, than to have a "serious" bidder show
up?

He's pushing the baseball angle - he got it at a NY Mets game so it's listed
under Sports Memorabilia (haha!)  The packet was manufactured by a NY company
as well so this would probably work best if you're not very close to that
area. I'm imagining questions like "Is the packet unopened?" and "What does it
look like?" but also maybe a rambling message or two about your "hobby" -
other mustards you've already collected, maybe how you started out collecting
all condiment packets but decided to focus on mustard, goofy stuff like that,
hopefully without crossing the line into obviously not serious.
[...]

Ahh, the world is rife with freak coincidences.  Why, just last week, a sports
memorabilia collector ran an eBay auction of an old LEGO Castle minifig pack,
just for kicks.  He couldn't believe that people collected LEGO sets.  His
buyer started out collecting all LEGO packets but decided to focus on Castle.

--Todd  ;-)



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  Re: eBay Prank - Please Help
 
"Todd Lehman" <lehman@javanet.com> wrote in message news:FyoKpH.6w1@lugnet.com... (...) listed (...) company (...) that (...) does it (...) "hobby" - (...) collecting (...) that, (...) sports (...) pack, (...) Castle. (...) Methinks you're eating (...) (24 years ago, 2-Aug-00, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)

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  eBay Prank - Please Help
 
Do you have a PayPal account, a little time to kill and a creative humorous streak? What's up? In short, someone I know, after a discussion about the assortment of junk listed on eBay, decided to try selling a mustard packet he picked up at a (...) (24 years ago, 2-Aug-00, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)

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