Ebay Classic - Pure Quality

[rob justice]

Spotted this on UK Ebay - I almost burst a rib laughing. The questions are priceless.

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=4603798888&rd=1&sspagename=STRK%3AMEWA%3AIT&rd=1

[singpilot]

Who said the Brits don't have a sense of humor?

I had a motorcycle gas tank from a parts bike that was beyond bad, it was so dinged, dented and rusty. I was going to throw it away, but decided to list it on eBay with a similar tongue-in-cheek description. I wish I had saved it, was priceless. things like;

-it doesn't look too bad if you have it upside down on the workbench. I had a girlfriend in college that was like that too, but she was not available for pictures for this listing.

-the rust in the filler cap area is bad enough that it is now growing under the paint in the filler neck area. The paint was so bad in those spots that the rust is doing you a favor by removing the paint.

It went on and on. Some of the questions I got were priceless, in the same vein.

2 hours before closing, two bidders started going at it.

It sold for over $120. I wrote the winner, telling him we needed to talk. He called me and explained that he ran a VoTech in West Virginia, and stuff like this was exactly what he needed to teach metal working and painting to his students. The state paid the eBay bill.