Comments on: Sick and contagious

By: Maddie

Fri, 06 Feb 2009 11:28:28 +0000

My mother is going out for a walk in the snow with dad this morning, and has informed that if her friend phones, to tell her to phone her mobile. Why? Because said friend is bidding on something on Ebay for mum and will phone if she wins >.<

By: Melanthios

Wed, 04 Feb 2009 14:01:54 +0000

I get impatient with the whole ‘bidding’ aspect. I just want to buy that old underwood typewriter when I find it, god damn it. Why do I have to keep hitting ‘reload’ and going through that whole stupid process over and over???

…Yeah, I’ve never understood how ebay can be addictive.

By: Melanthios

Wed, 04 Feb 2009 13:57:15 +0000

Actually, despite saying it was only the box, when the buyer complained to eBay, they penalised the seller EVEN THOUGH THEY SAY YOU SHOULD READ ALL THE DETAILS AND THAT THEY WILL NOT BE RESPONSIBLE IF YOU DON’T.

So, yeah, they broke their own rules. I’m not impressed.

By: McClackers

Sun, 01 Feb 2009 22:19:33 +0000

Well my friend makes jewellry and sells it on ebay, she has made a killing!!

She put a pair of earrings up for bid and thy sold for £75 like Holy crap!!!

By: Maura

Sun, 01 Feb 2009 02:10:10 +0000

I made these chipper little phallic dolls as a joke, but managed to sell all 15. I was a little embarrassed whenever anyone would ask what they were, if they didn’t immediately recognize it.

But, yes, you will be a kabillionaire, either way.

By: Ben

Sun, 01 Feb 2009 02:00:46 +0000

I want to make some penis shaped molds/moulds and grow carrots and sweet potatoe in them and sell the results on ebay.

The plan was to originally sell them at a church market/fun raiser.

I guess this plan would also work with jesus/mary shaped casts aswell…..

hmmmm, I feel a kabillion dollars coming my way

By: Tia

Sat, 31 Jan 2009 06:31:47 +0000

if somebody wants to buy something and it’s not actually dangerous, i don’t see why they shouldn’t be able to.

By: DmL

Fri, 30 Jan 2009 04:12:50 +0000

I don’t see how bidding on an interesting sandwich is any more absurd than bidding to get a “collector’s edition” barbie or a “valuable” rock or something.

By: Erika Hammerschmidt

Thu, 29 Jan 2009 22:34:05 +0000

Actually, eBay does try to stop the selling of things that seem to be jokes or hoaxes. They've removed listings where people tried to sell their souls or their virginity. And when the Mary sandwich was up for auction, they temporarily pulled the listing off their site, before putting it back when it became clear that the seller was serious about it. I guess they don't go quite far enough...

By: Tia

Thu, 29 Jan 2009 22:21:47 +0000

evolution, and probably the certain amount of money they make off that sort of thing

By: ambroziak

Thu, 29 Jan 2009 21:32:54 +0000

yeah, i want to make some strange plug-in/blow-up things. like those hideous holiday lawn ornaments that are apparently the it thing to have in the suburbs.

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2055/2344010285_1bcb65052d.jpg

By: Gloria Touchscreen

Thu, 29 Jan 2009 08:57:30 +0000

Yuck… Selling an half eaten sandwich. How could they? Why is ebay not doing something against such things?

By: Erika Hammerschmidt

Wed, 28 Jan 2009 23:59:25 +0000

What I find particularly awful is that every time someone sees a pattern somewhere that happens to resemble a woman, they say it’s the Virgin Mary. Why the Virgin Mary? Nobody even knows what she looked like!

I mean, I suppose I could understand if it looked like the archetypical Virgin Mary, wearing a head-scarf and praying– but the face that’s (barely) visible in that sandwich is just a generic pretty female face. It could be Natalie Portman for all you know. Except that Natalie Portman isn’t holy, and therefore doesn’t have the power to appear on sandwiches. Eyeroll.

There’s an experiment I’ve done sometimes, ever since I was a little kid. Take any irregular surface: a leather cushion, a mottled wallpaper, a wooden floorboard– and trace an outline on it. Any outline: the Virgin Mary, an elephant, a toaster. Whatever it is, you will see that outline in the pattern when you’re done.

Anything at all can be a Rorschach test…

By: Erika Hammerschmidt

Wed, 28 Jan 2009 23:45:34 +0000

I just bought my husband a giant Humboldt squid beak on eBay for $25.

He’s the type who has a cabinet full of varous minerals and fossils, a manatee bone, etc… and I know he Googled squid beaks recently and was very impressed with the results, so I figured it would be a pretty safe gift.

Don’t tell him– his birthday isn’t until March. Although he is frustratingly uninterested in webcomics, so there’s pretty much no chance he’ll either read this or talk to any of you in the next few months.

By: Maura

Wed, 28 Jan 2009 20:54:56 +0000

E-bay is absurd for the value people put on every-day item.
Etsy (the e-bay of handmade things) is absurd for the across-the-board pricing–from selling it for a steal to gross over-charging–for such items.

By: DmL

Wed, 28 Jan 2009 20:41:53 +0000

DO YOU KNOW THE MUFFIN FAN?

By: DmL

Wed, 28 Jan 2009 20:33:21 +0000

oh HTML img tags? not that it _really_ matters…

By: Amanda Ketten

Wed, 28 Jan 2009 09:26:24 +0000

Good, that you won’t do that

I often buy things on ebay, but I won’t ever buy such things.

I can’t believe that anyway. How could somebody sell such things? And who would ever buy this? That’s really crazy. People are strange.

By: Roo

Tue, 27 Jan 2009 19:25:49 +0000

I think maybe instead of [] ? Or, wait… maybe “img src= http://….” insid the ? Something like that. I don’t know HTML, I don’t know why I’m commenting, really. Distraction from work, maybe.

By: Maura

Tue, 27 Jan 2009 19:08:53 +0000

Millions
But there’s an inherent risk to putting things like that online…someone may assume that the “religious artifact” is somehow connected directly to you.

By: Ben

Tue, 27 Jan 2009 07:37:30 +0000

I love and hate eBay. One needs to be very well informed before bidding on that site.
I’ve had a few wins and an equal number of losses.
There are now only certain items I would consider worthy of buying on eBay.

I have a large piece of follised wood that looks alot like the Virgin Mary cradling baby Jesus. I wonder what that would be worth on eBay?

By: Philippa

Mon, 26 Jan 2009 22:12:23 +0000

My friend buys novelty tissues online.
He doesn’t use normal or plain ones.
It makes asking him for a tissue a joy! Sometimes I almost pray for a runny nose.

By: DmL

Mon, 26 Jan 2009 22:04:19 +0000

[img]http://evo.dmlcorp.net/comics/panda.jpg[/img]
?

By: Maura

Mon, 26 Jan 2009 21:55:06 +0000

Muffin fans, eh?

By: Maura

Mon, 26 Jan 2009 21:53:59 +0000

That is…pure genius.