I had an idea that I might be able to salvage some of my old posts thanks to Google’s Caching system, and I came across the infamous Ebay Banana stuff, but stuff I haven’t seen yet… until now that is. It would appear that while a lot of pepople over here thought the Banana was funny, a lot of people were really taking the piss… Observe these forum posts:
- DriverHeaven.net: where I am referred to as ‘A Stupid Brit’, where ‘renovation’ reveals himself as the guy who went to pay £30,000 for the Banana, ‘MIG-31′ implys he’s bought two things off eBay without paying, and British irony seems to be lost on these people.
- PCA Forums: which looks to be the same site, where the original SS Blog post was quoted, the potential buyer gives a sarcastic apology, and informs us that this was reported to eBay before the high price appeared.
However, a few important points are made here – well, one – and that is that the Ebay Banana would have cost me in listing fees, especially should it have gone through at £30,100. I’m not sure how much I would have owed Ebay had that have happened, but even so it is a good point they have there.
Still, I got my fifteen minutes of fame out of it.
