# Monkey phone call auction has 10 bids already.

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/monkey-phone-call-auction-has-10-bids-already/57770>\
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\
**Created:** [March 13, 2001, 5:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/monkey-phone-call-auction-has-10-bids-already/57770 "2001-03-13T05:45:01Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 5\
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**Author:** ![Stoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/stoid/32/272_2.png) [@Stoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stoid)\
**Post date:** [March 13, 2001, 5:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/monkey-phone-call-auction-has-10-bids-already/57770/1 "2001-03-13T05:45:01Z")

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This is pretty damn funny. And people are pretty damn strange.

[http://cgi.ebay.com/aw-cgi/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=568756552](http://cgi.ebay.com/aw-cgi/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=568756552)

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**Author:** ![Doug\_Bowe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/df788c/32.png) [@Doug\_Bowe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Doug_Bowe)\
**Post date:** [March 13, 2001, 7:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/monkey-phone-call-auction-has-10-bids-already/57770/2 "2001-03-13T07:42:08Z")

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Notice how he words it. _Sometime within_ the given hour he’ll phone you up and scream like a monkey.  
For 1 minute.  
For $11.  
Or the highest bidder.

Let’s see…if he was r-e-a-l slow and only made two calls every 5 minutes it means in that hour he could handle the last 12 bidders of $11 or over.

Hmmm. Who’s the monkey here?

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**Author:** ![xizor](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/xizor/32/102_2.png) [@xizor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/xizor)\
**Post date:** [March 13, 2001, 3:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/monkey-phone-call-auction-has-10-bids-already/57770/3 "2001-03-13T15:15:23Z")

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I guess it’s official now, **ALL** the good money making ideas are now taken.

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**Author:** ![racerx](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/5e9695/32.png) [@racerx](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/racerx)\
**Post date:** [March 13, 2001, 4:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/monkey-phone-call-auction-has-10-bids-already/57770/4 "2001-03-13T16:26:57Z")

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I’m sorry, but that is dern funny. That guy deserves 20 bucks for the phone call. S’pecially for the entire write up he gave in the auction description. He even gave a pic of a monkey to visualize. That’s just funny.

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**Author:** ![bdgr](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/a87d85/32.png) [@bdgr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bdgr)\
**Post date:** [March 14, 2001, 10:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/monkey-phone-call-auction-has-10-bids-already/57770/5 "2001-03-14T22:31:50Z")

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It’s gone now. Anyone want to explain what it was?