has anyone seen the $20,000 snowball for sale on ebay?!?

[MarkEmark]

Some guy from Texas is selling an "authentic" snowball from the first TX snowfall in over a hundred years on ebay. What's sad is that 80,000 people have viewed the auction, there have been 66 bids, and some jackass is willing to pay $21,000 for it. I wonder if it's all a joke or something...

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISA...&rd=1

There's the link.
Modified by MarkEmark at 10:52 PM 1/6/2005

[GEO]

Its a joke. Look at the bidders feedback, "1".

[MarkEmark]

But if you look at the bid history, apparently fully accredited E-bayers have bid on the same snowball...

I'm sure it is a joke, but still...if it's through ebay I don't understand how they do it...is the seller going to bite Ebay's seller's fee just for a good laugh? Does that mean he has friends and/or other accounts bidding on it?

I actually heard about this snowball on ebay from local news stations...

[Florida240sx]

Look at the bid history same people outbiding themselves. One guy is even from texas...sure he has his own already.

[Luke]

Q: how will you ship without melting...but really for more than $16,000 you should just hand deliever it, really!! answered on: Jan-06-05 A: may do that when we go to NY City Dave Letterman show

wtf, they got invited to letterman? I hope whoever wins that auction never pays.

[Florida240sx]

We should hunt down the guy who buys this.When he receives his packasge we should all have brought some snowballs and just unload on him.

[574-240sx]

I got a special rare yellow snow ball compliments of my dog I could sell him for about the $1,000 ball park range.

[xekushnr]

the guy who is the leading bidder is from canada. does he really need more snow?

[wangless]

maybe hes tired of canadian snow lol

[nismo521]

up to $259K now

[accel junky]

Holy crap.... i;ve actually heard that there is this one guy who buys all of that weird ebay stuff to put in his casino to attract customers.

[nismofly]

omg its over $2 million at this point

people are funny

[koukiKA240]

why didnt i think of this. Its been over a hundred years since houston had a white christmas...~Sam

[ILikeMy240sx]

over 2 million... i never knew so many people smoked crack

[Luke]

We should hunt down the guy who buys this.When he receives his packasge we should all have brought some snowballs and just unload on him.

hahah, that's a hilarious idea.

....and in that case, I'm in.

[Gold Digger]

3 million now

[Gold Digger]

Look at the bid history same people outbiding themselves. One guy is even from texas...sure he has his own already.

That is because of proxy bidding. If you set a maximum bid of such and such, when someone bids, and it is lower than your max, it ups your bid.That's why that happens.

[574-240sx]

Over 4 million. Thats great.

[Bruno240]

55 million, holy poop. and it still has a day left and the last 10 mins os when it goes up the most. At this rate it will past 100 million mark

[ILikeMy240sx]

I wonder how hes going to pay for the fee on that auction lol.

For something that high price do they have a set fee or do they still charge percentage (sux for him)?

[Bruno240]

5.25% of the initial $25.00 ($1.31), plus 2.75% of the initial $25.00 - $1,000.00 ($26.81), plus 1.50% of the remaining closing value balance ($1,000.01 - closing value)

soooo. If it closes at $55,000,000. He will owe $825,013.12 in final fees. But thats if my math is correct. Still if no one buys it, and he has to pay that final fee. That would be one expensive joke.

[574-240sx]

ended for $92.00

[Bruno240]

yeah whats with that?

did ppl retract there bids or what. How can it go from $55,000,000 to less than $100

[NX95240]

thats some crazy stuff..

[MainEvent212]

seller has the right to cancel any bids he finds to be false or otherwise not trust worthy