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:
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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.
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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. |
