Check out the bidding action on this one...

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Posted By: brian p

This has to be the lowest amount (currently $8.77) for a vintage card with such a ridiculous amount of legit bids (37!). Not usually a very popular set, but this one has sure caught a lot people's low dollar attention.

http://offer.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewBids&item=8710708563

Brian

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Posted By: Charlie O'Neal

I might have to bid on this one b/c it's funny. If you can get through reading the dumbest auctions description I have ever seen look at the questions that he has answered. LMAO

http://cgi.ebay.com/W-W-L-K-A-GENUINE-AUTHENTIC-BASEBALL-CARD-NICE_W0QQitemZ8710708563QQcategoryZ86852QQssPageNa meZWDVWQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem

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Posted By: Marc S.

after reading all 38 questions and answers.

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Posted By: David Vargha

Apparently from one of his answers, I am banned from bidding.

DavidVargha@hotmail.com

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Posted By: pete

how in the heck did 500+ people view this listing? do you put in W@W!!! or L@@K!! in the search field?

so what's it gonna end at? $19.99 with 236 bids?

my best pitch was the one that made it to the plate!

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Posted By: brian p

I didn't even notice the write-up or all the questions--I just noticed the ridiculous amount of bids. Too funny...

Brian

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Posted By: Max Weder

Funniest auction I've seen in some time. I wonder how many questions were originally planted by the seller, and how many are others joining in the amusement?

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Posted By: will watson

HA!

its a running joke among a few hobby friends. it started out as an excuse to list every concievable hobby cliche in one auction description, and turned out to be full blown comedy. all the questions and 40 or so bids are running jokes.

its kind of like a good old fashion game of "chicken" now. whose gonna get stuck as the winning bidder? rare instance where when you win, you actually lose

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Posted By: brian p

I just posted a question and got a quick, funny answer...join in the fun!

Brian

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Posted By: BlackSoxFan

I bid for fun!

Regards,

Black Sox Fan

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Posted By: Al Crisafulli

I just saw this thread, and I'm laughing.

I'm the seller on this auction. There's actually a story behind it, as Will says.

I recently completed this 1943 MP & Co (actually Michael Pressner, and not Michael Pressman as I mistakenly state in my listings) set. So last week I wanted to toss the dupes I've accumulated in my Ebay store. Anyone familiar with this set knows that the single cards were hand-cut from strips, and so they're usually pretty well beat-up.

Unfortunately the Cronin was such a mess that when I removed it from the scanner bed, the front of the card literally fell right off the back!

So now, with a worthless card, I get the idea to put together a joke listing that basically lampoons all the auctions out there from fraudulent sellers trying to pawn off reprints as real. They use stupid headlines like "W@W!" and "L@@K!", and then they tell ridiculous stories about how they got the card, and why they're selling it. The card always came from behind a wall, or is being sold by someone because they need money to cover medical bills. They sell a fake T206 Wagner, but "don't have time" to get it graded, but claim to have had it authenticated by a local dealer. So I decided to try and make up one long story that used every Ebay auction cliche' that I could think of.

Every one of the components of my auction description I read in someone else's auction - even the thing about the "smell test."

I told a few of my friends about the listing, and they started hammering me with goofy questions. None of the questions were planted by me; they're all questions that came from actual people. At this point, it's ballooned a bit.

Like Will says, people are playing chicken with the bids, I suppose to see who gets stuck with the card at the end of the auction.

Meanwhile, I'm having a blast with it. Particularly because a few people have asked me legitimate questions about the card, or written to warn me that the card is not really worth $10K like I was told. I've responded to all the serious questions privately, and not posted the questions so as not to embarrass any bidders.

-Al

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Posted By: Charlie O'Neal

I'm glad your auction got this much attention b/c this is the most I have laughed in awhile. The questions that you answer and how you answer them are the true center piece of the auction to me. Glad someone has some humor on eBay.

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Posted By: Keith O'Leary

ROFLMFAO

 

gotta lovit.

 

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Posted By: TJ Schwartz

ABSOLUTELY HYSTERICAL!! I wanted to ask a question. "Why is he holding his glove where it is?" But I see it is closed. Great stuff! Thanks for the laugh! TJS

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Posted By: Dennis W.

Al - Great auction! I, too, got a few good laughs. But I Really wish I would have seen it and bid on it before it closed. Most of us poor folks don't have a T206 Wagner, a Baltimore News Ruth or a 4BH Kelly. But for a mere $11 the lucky winner will be known for owning the prized Cronin "2 piece blue loafer cat pee bible card" or the 2PBLCPB Cronin card. I can't even brag that I was sniped for the dang thing! I nominate it for the next "Most desireable card" poll.

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Posted By: brian p

I can proudly state that I, along with 30 or so others, was an underbidder on this one. May future wall-enclosed Bibles yield another card so worthy of our admiration.

Brian