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Posted by French Toast on Sat Feb 26th at 7:14pm 2005

The Mystery Envelope

People are idiots.

I saw this on the Garrys Mod Forums and thought I'd spread the stupidity. [addsig]



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Posted by Gwil on Sat Feb 26th at 7:28pm 2005

I'd act shocked, apalled or amazed but quite frankly i've come to expect this from eBay! uber-kudos to someone who can manage to sell what is probably an empty envelope for nigh on $6000.

I really need to start shifting some of my junk on eBay, or perhaps spill a little coffee on a shirt and sell it as a "turin shroud - a - like". Someone will buy it.

People, like you say, are idiots [addsig]



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Posted by Leperous on Sat Feb 26th at 7:38pm 2005

"insurance is required at the rate of $1.00 per $100.00. I won't disclose the value of the contents of the envelope so the insurance will apply to the price of the winning bid for this mystery envelope and not the actual value of the contents in the envelope."

Surely not allowed?!

Though I presume something like this will get voted up to $10m pretty quickly, or if it doesn't you can just refuse to pay and get a negative rating, oh boo-hoo





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Posted by ReNo on Sat Feb 26th at 7:39pm 2005

I guess if you are rich and such money doesn't matter to you, then its all a bit of fun bidding to try and find out whats inside. If it isn't stupidly rich people that are bidding, then those people are idiots.
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Posted by Myrk- on Sat Feb 26th at 7:50pm 2005

Or jokers. [addsig]



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Posted by Bobv on Sat Feb 26th at 8:37pm 2005

Or people with stolen credit cards.




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Posted by $loth on Sat Feb 26th at 10:27pm 2005

Or rich jokers with stolen credit cards
PS I would laugh, but my sides still hurt from judo last night
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Posted by omegaslayer on Sat Feb 26th at 10:38pm 2005

I honestly don't know what to say, but wow! This has opened my eyes to selling the junk in my room on ebay! [addsig]



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Posted by Nickelplate on Sun Feb 27th at 1:27am 2005

I just wish i had thought of it first. All i need to do is come by a crate of box from the 1800's (not too hard for me) that hasn't been opened in a long time and tell them it's a mystery box. No one will fall for the envelope again, but damn! the box is a GOOD idea! [addsig]



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Posted by habboi on Sun Feb 27th at 2:35pm 2005

I bet that the item within it is the owner who is selling it and once the bidder opens it, the seller pops out and goes surprise! [addsig]



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Posted by parakeet on Sun Feb 27th at 5:48pm 2005

at a price like that id feel guilty and put at least something decent in the envelope...
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Posted by Static88 on Sun Feb 27th at 6:02pm 2005

I was reading this guy's previous auctions. The one below states that he can't afford to give his wife a cruise for their 10th anniversary so I doubt that there's anything of value in the envelope. What suckers. If every bidder were to just look at his previous auctions, they would have noticed this. Pretty sad.

http://cgi.ebay.ca/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&category=1467&item=5552803502

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Posted by French Toast on Mon Feb 28th at 2:52am 2005

Alright boys, 2 hours left and it's up to $7,400.00.

Who will win? I'm staying up for the end of this one [addsig]



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Posted by Kage_Prototype on Mon Feb 28th at 2:53am 2005

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Alright boys, 2 hours left and it's up to $7,400.00.

Who will win? I'm staying up for the end of this one


Heh...first you condemn the auction for being stupid, and now you're staying up to watch it finish?
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Posted by French Toast on Mon Feb 28th at 3:03am 2005

Of course, it's going to be exciting, all the morons who actually bid on it are going to go crazy in the last couple minutes. It's going to skyrocket, I'm going for another thousand on top of that 7.5k

It is a stupid auction, if people were intelligent. However people are idiots, and thus it is an incredibly smart auction. Me on the other hand being more intelligent realize how stupid it is, yet then realize how the vast majority of people are idiots and then come to the conclusion that it is, in fact, a genious idea.

So there take that! [addsig]



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Posted by Kage_Prototype on Mon Feb 28th at 3:04am 2005

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Of course, it's going to be exciting, all the morons who actually bid on it are going to go crazy in the last couple minutes. It's going to skyrocket, I'm going for another thousand on top of that 7.5k

It is a stupid auction, if people were intelligent. However people are idiots, and thus it is an incredibly smart auction. Me on the other hand being more intelligent realize how stupid it is, yet then realize how the vast majority of people are idiots and then come to the conclusion that it is, in fact, a genious idea.

So there take that!


E-penis minus 50 points
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Posted by French Toast on Mon Feb 28th at 3:08am 2005

Actually, if I want to be really accurate here, this is what I said ;


? quote:
The Mystery Envelope

People are idiots.

I saw this on the Garrys Mod Forums and thought I'd spread the stupidity.


I never said the auction was stupid, I said people were stupid. [addsig]



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Posted by DrGlass on Mon Feb 28th at 4:30am 2005

I think its sad, I bet some lower middle class person with a 5 member family is bidding all their money in their kids college fund on this.

The rich didn't get to be rich by spending on crap like this, and the smart wont touch somthing like this. Its the dumb people out there who think and dream that inside that envelope is some kind of magical thing that will fix all the wrongs in their life.

or not... but I'm willing to bet that some poor family is getting a really expensive picture frame.
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Posted by Dark Tree on Mon Feb 28th at 6:18am 2005

I think I should get an old rusty barrel, spray paint a familiar 'flammable' logo on the side, and put it on eBay as an authentic combine explodable barrel...FROM THE ACTUAL CITY 17. [addsig]



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Posted by Crono on Mon Feb 28th at 9:38am 2005

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I think I should get an old rusty barrel, spray paint a familiar 'flammable' logo on the side, and put it on eBay as an authentic combine explodable barrel...FROM THE ACTUAL CITY 17.



You have to say somewhere that it is a prop or something like that otherwise when the bidder sues you: They'll win. [addsig]




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