# Funny eBay ads **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [September 3, 2011, 3:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/funny-ebay-ads/595060 "2011-09-03T15:08:12Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [September 3, 2011, 3:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/funny-ebay-ads/595060/1 "2011-09-03T15:08:12Z")
Obvious scam? Well-written with the tongue firmly planted in the cheek? ‘I can’t believe someone is actually trying to sell _that!_’? Post some ads that tickle you in some way. [Here’s one I found](http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/NEW-AIRPLANE-4-PERSONS-/260846954125?pt=Motors_Aircraft&hash=item3cbbb0a68d#ht_500wt_1122). It’s not ‘hilarious’ in the traditional manner, but I found it amusing simply because the subject matter is what interests me. AIRPLANE IS NEW MY AIRPLANE FOR SALE PLEASE SEND A MESSAGE FOR INFORMATION Oh, and the seller and airplane are in Turkey. What makes it funny (to me) is that the NEW airplane in question is half-a-century old, a 1960-1962 model, and the total lack of information. It looks like a scam. Maybe the guy has poor language skills, or maybe he’s just clueless. But it has ‘scam’ written all over it. What funny ads have you turned up? ---
**Author:** ![Cat\_Whisperer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cat_whisperer/32/4839_2.png) [@Cat\_Whisperer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cat_Whisperer)\ **Post date:** [September 3, 2011, 3:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/funny-ebay-ads/595060/2 "2011-09-03T15:35:51Z")
I like the Craiglist type ads that admonish _other people’s_ ads, like ads saying that Joe Schmoe is a crooked contractor and won’t show up or pay you for working, or telling people to quit mis-catergorizing their ads. ---
**Author:** ![needscoffee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/needscoffee/32/1076_2.png) [@needscoffee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/needscoffee)\ **Post date:** [September 3, 2011, 11:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/funny-ebay-ads/595060/3 "2011-09-03T23:50:26Z")
Here are a few I’ve seen in the last month on Craigslist, cut and pasted verbatim: > [@](#): > > **Palm roller** > > Date: 2011-08-23, 9:12PM > Looking for someone to palm roll my Dreads once everyother day will pay a lil and blaze a lil too lemme know. > > [ul] > [li]Location: Tacoma[/li][li]it’s NOT ok to contact this poster with services or other commercial interests [/li][li]Compensation: will talk but will pay [/li][/ul] > [@](#): > > **Do my LA summer reading packet** > > Date: 2011-08-27, 12:48PM > The book is of mice and men. I have a reading packet to go with. I definitely want an A because this is the first the teacher will see of my work. Will pay 15 +tip depending on speed and work quality (should be pretty easy work). If I get an A there will be more opportunities weekly. This is in-going 9th grade work. > > [ul] > [li]Location: Bridal Trails [/li][li]it’s NOT ok to contact this poster with services or other commercial interests [/li][li]Compensation: no pay[/li][/ul] [ul] [li]Note: the kid lives in \*Bridle \*Trails, not Bridal[/li][/ul] > [@](#): > > **Actress for Woodland Fairy film** > > Date: 2011-08-07, 12:37PM > I am two years into a video project that will be given away free to the military. > I am a serious filmmaker that does everything from documentaries, to helping other non profits to instructional video. > This however is a creative/artistic video. In context to the film there is a dream sequence where a woodland fairy wakes up from her bed made of branches. > It is a moment that you see in classic British Victorian Fairy Paintings from the late 1800s. > I am trying to recreate in video. Two points you should note, your face will not be seen due to doubling for another actress and nudity is involved. > There is not an adult video. So sex is not involved. > This is also a music video so it is a plus if you sing, but is not needed to complete video. > > This film is a thank you to those serving in our armed forces in danger and send a message that there are people waiting for you at home while you serve and that there is no replacement for who you are. > I look forward to sharing about this project with you and your part in it. > > [ul] > [li]Location: Allyn[/li][li]it’s NOT ok to contact this poster with services or other commercial interests [/li][li]Compensation: $200 cash [/li][/ul] ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [September 4, 2011, 12:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/funny-ebay-ads/595060/4 "2011-09-04T00:02:05Z")
‘Blaze a lil’? What’s that? 😕 A kid looking for someone to do his homework for him? Aiyiyiyiyi… :rolleyes: Not knowing how to spell _where you live?_ Fail. The last one? It’s not that easy finding an actress who will appear nude up here. As a sometime-filmmaker, I’ve shot nudity and on the last project we had to get an actress from Seattle for one scene. The actress for the other nude scene was local, but she had a jealous heroin-addict boyfriend who caused problems. I can feel for the guy (though his fairy project for the military sounds pretty funny). He doth protest too much. In L.A. the usual format is: ACTRESS WANTED. [Age range], [race, if applicable], [role description], nudity required, [compensation] (EDIT: As it happens, I have a role that requires nudity for a female corpse. But before I get to that I need a crew, the rest of the actors, locations, and time to shoot the film.) . ---
**Author:** ![Drain\_Bead](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e47774/32.png) [@Drain\_Bead](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Drain_Bead)\ **Post date:** [September 4, 2011, 12:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/funny-ebay-ads/595060/5 "2011-09-04T00:08:29Z")
Blaze = he’ll share some weed with you. There’s a page out there somewhere full of pictures from eBay ads where people were selling something reflective and took a picture of the item while naked. ---
**Author:** ![Crazyhorse](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/crazyhorse/32/31_2.png) [@Crazyhorse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Crazyhorse)\ **Post date:** [September 4, 2011, 12:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/funny-ebay-ads/595060/6 "2011-09-04T00:11:17Z")
> [@Drain\_Bead](#): > > Blaze = he’ll share some weed with you. > > There’s a page out there somewhere full of pictures from eBay ads where people were selling something reflective and took a picture of the item while naked. [Reflect-o-porn](http://www.snopes.com/photos/risque/kettle.asp)(\*possibly NSWF Snopes article, inasmuch as there is nakedness - if you squint really hard and look closely) ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [September 4, 2011, 4:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/funny-ebay-ads/595060/7 "2011-09-04T04:38:25Z")
Heh. The ad in the OP has been taken down. I guess somebody spelled rotting fish and decided to report it.