# More Ebay fun - the wedding dress! **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [April 27, 2004, 7:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-ebay-fun-the-wedding-dress/242330 "2004-04-27T19:15:18Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![hajario](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hajario/32/171_2.png) [@hajario](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hajario)\ **Post date:** [April 27, 2004, 7:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-ebay-fun-the-wedding-dress/242330/1 "2004-04-27T19:15:18Z")
This is hilarious. [http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=4146756343](http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=4146756343) Haj ---
**Author:** ![monster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/7ab992/32.png) [@monster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/monster)\ **Post date:** [April 27, 2004, 7:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-ebay-fun-the-wedding-dress/242330/2 "2004-04-27T19:27:54Z")
This guy is hilarious! I laughed all through his description. ---
**Author:** ![UrbanChic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/9dc877/32.png) [@UrbanChic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/UrbanChic)\ **Post date:** [April 27, 2004, 7:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-ebay-fun-the-wedding-dress/242330/3 "2004-04-27T19:31:59Z")
That guy was hilarious! If I’m supposed to believe the guy who modeled the dress is the author of the description and follow-up posts, I will truly start living by not judging a book by its cover. My favorite quotes: > [@](#): > > Actually I didn’t think my head would fit in the neck hole, but then I figured she got her Texas cheerleader hair through there I could get my head in it. Though, after looking at the pictures, I thought it made me look fat. How do you women wear this crap? I only had to walk 3 feet and I tripped twice. Don’t worry ladies - I am wearing clothes on underneath it. I gotta say it did make me feel very pretty. So if it can make me feel pretty, it can make you feel pretty, especially on the most important day of your life, right? > [@](#): > > A lot of folks were asking me if I wear women’s dresses a lot. I can honestly say that this is the first time I have ever donned female attire. It’s also the first time I’ve been inside something feminine that didn’t nag me to take out the garbage. > [@](#): > > Wealthy will be the person that opens a store for Lane Bryant-sized women but sews size 7 tags on all the clothes. > [@](#): > > On the flip side of that, I have taken offense to some of the people that told me I’m ugly and a loser. All I have to say is you’d be ugly too if you had a huge white blotch on your face. And as far as being a loser, I think you have it all wrong. I am such the winner. It isn’t every day an average guy can make 50,000 people laugh. Thanks to each and every one of you from the heart of my bottom. ---
**Author:** ![screech-owl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/82dd89/32.png) [@screech-owl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/screech-owl)\ **Post date:** [April 27, 2004, 8:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-ebay-fun-the-wedding-dress/242330/4 "2004-04-27T20:04:23Z")
Quote]Yes, headdress and veil are included, but the do-rag stays with me. And if the train was long enough for my ex’s caboose, it’s long enough for yours. [/quote] Heh!!! Highly amusing. Almost looks like he has a 1960’s hair flip in the front-on photo. ---
**Author:** ![astro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/9dc877/32.png) [@astro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astro)\ **Post date:** [April 27, 2004, 8:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-ebay-fun-the-wedding-dress/242330/5 "2004-04-27T20:38:11Z")
“I feel pretty! Oh so pretty! I feel pretty and witty and” … well not _that_, but still pretty. ---
**Author:** ![Martha\_Medea](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/43a26b/32.png) [@Martha\_Medea](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Martha_Medea)\ **Post date:** [April 27, 2004, 9:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-ebay-fun-the-wedding-dress/242330/6 "2004-04-27T21:08:22Z")
I loved it all, but this is worth quoting. > [@](#): > > One email was from Scotland. It’s a good thing he wrote it because I wouldn’t be able to understand a word he said. Never did get through Braveheart ---
**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:** [April 27, 2004, 9:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-ebay-fun-the-wedding-dress/242330/7 "2004-04-27T21:09:37Z")
“HELLO!!! I’m a guy selling a dress. I’m not wanted for war crimes.” This is the closest I’ve ever been to laughing out loud at work. Thanks, mang. ---
**Author:** ![lisacurl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/41988e/32.png) [@lisacurl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lisacurl)\ **Post date:** [April 27, 2004, 9:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-ebay-fun-the-wedding-dress/242330/8 "2004-04-27T21:18:37Z")
My favorite bit: > [@](#): > > This has also been a learning experience for me. I got a lot of messages correcting me about the color of wedding dresses. For Russian Orthodox, they are blue. For Chinese they are red. Mexico has multi-colored ones. All I know is, for my next wedding I will be wearing a hairy, flesh-toned ensemble because I will be buck naked with a toe tag lying on a slab in the morgue because I would have killed myself. ---
**Author:** ![badbadrubberpiggy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/57b2e6/32.png) [@badbadrubberpiggy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/badbadrubberpiggy)\ **Post date:** [April 27, 2004, 9:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-ebay-fun-the-wedding-dress/242330/9 "2004-04-27T21:22:29Z")
fantastic! I haven’t browsed e-bay in quite a while, due to not having the money to buy things, nor anything of my own to sell. I should go just for the laughs! This guy is great - before I got to the bottom of the page, I said to myself “gee, I wonder how many marriage proposals this guy will get?” Thanks for the laugh! ---
**Author:** ![AngelicGemma](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/439d5e/32.png) [@AngelicGemma](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AngelicGemma)\ **Post date:** [April 28, 2004, 1:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-ebay-fun-the-wedding-dress/242330/10 "2004-04-28T13:07:54Z")
That guy is great! ---
**Author:** ![Eleusis](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/f4b2a3/32.png) [@Eleusis](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eleusis)\ **Post date:** [April 28, 2004, 1:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-ebay-fun-the-wedding-dress/242330/11 "2004-04-28T13:53:29Z")
It pisses me off that idiots have to try to screw up the auction. It was at $720 from someone with double digit feedback, now $15 million :rolleyes: ---
**Author:** ![Queen\_Bee\_1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/e480ec/32.png) [@Queen\_Bee\_1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Queen_Bee_1)\ **Post date:** [April 28, 2004, 2:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-ebay-fun-the-wedding-dress/242330/12 "2004-04-28T14:38:49Z")
> [@Eleusis](#): > > It pisses me off that idiots have to try to screw up the auction. It was at $720 from someone with double digit feedback, now $15 million :rolleyes: last I checked, it was 999,999,999 million. That kind of crap pisses me off, so I emailed the jerk (I’m the sort who just has to speak up), especially since when you bid, its a frikkin’ contract. I hope the seller reports the twerp. It costs you (nominally, but it still costs you) to list something for sale. He didn’t think anything of it. His reply: _"Did you ever stop to think that this guy will be on talk shows and very famous from this??? Or can you… Do you think that he will make many times what this dress is worth?? This will be on many news shows tomorrow… Did anyone ever tell you that you are very anal retentive dok???_ Stupid shit. So what if any of that is true. I told him that I thought I might offer my legal services pro bono to enforce the contract if he was the winning bidder, just to give him shit. I hate jerks like that. ---
**Author:** ![Queen\_Bee\_1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/e480ec/32.png) [@Queen\_Bee\_1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Queen_Bee_1)\ **Post date:** [April 28, 2004, 2:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-ebay-fun-the-wedding-dress/242330/13 "2004-04-28T14:43:03Z")
just checked again, and it looks like all the multimillion dollar bids were administratively cancelled by ebay. Current bid is over $25K!! Good for him! Look what a little creative writing will get you! 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Shade](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/2bfe46/32.png) [@Shade](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shade)\ **Post date:** [April 28, 2004, 2:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-ebay-fun-the-wedding-dress/242330/14 "2004-04-28T14:59:10Z")
> [@](#): > > Though, after looking at the pictures, I thought it made me look fat. How do you women wear this crap? LOL. ---
**Author:** ![monster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/7ab992/32.png) [@monster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/monster)\ **Post date:** [April 28, 2004, 6:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-ebay-fun-the-wedding-dress/242330/15 "2004-04-28T18:59:58Z")
Kevin Matthews (local talk radio host) spoke with him this afternoon. I don’t know how they got in touch with him because I was outside for the beginning of it. But this guy is cracking up that the bidding has gotten up so high. Too funny! ---
**Author:** ![MovieMogul](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f08c70/32.png) [@MovieMogul](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MovieMogul)\ **Post date:** [April 28, 2004, 8:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-ebay-fun-the-wedding-dress/242330/16 "2004-04-28T20:32:11Z")
> [@Queen Bee](#): > > just checked again, and it looks like all the multimillion dollar bids were administratively cancelled by ebay. Current bid is over $25K!! Good for him! Look what a little creative writing will get you! 😃 Bid has dropped to $15K. Still, that’s more than 10 times what he paid, plus a little publicity (he claims he’s got a website coming soon). ---
**Author:** ![teela\_brown](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/d9b06d/32.png) [@teela\_brown](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/teela_brown)\ **Post date:** [April 28, 2004, 10:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-ebay-fun-the-wedding-dress/242330/17 "2004-04-28T22:19:54Z")
Another great E-bay writer! He’d be a great addition to the Board - I think I’ll write him and send him our link. We could always use the talent. ---
**Author:** ![Ashkicker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/4bbf92/32.png) [@Ashkicker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ashkicker)\ **Post date:** [April 28, 2004, 10:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-ebay-fun-the-wedding-dress/242330/18 "2004-04-28T22:44:59Z")
Sure hope he gets someone to pay. That would be one hell of an e-bay sellers fee to recoup. ---
**Author:** ![Reeder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/c6cbf5/32.png) [@Reeder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Reeder)\ **Post date:** [April 29, 2004, 1:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-ebay-fun-the-wedding-dress/242330/19 "2004-04-29T01:23:03Z")
Winning bid: US $3,850.00 What gets me is he said he only paid $1200…why would it even go that high? ---
**Author:** ![Queen\_Bee\_1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/e480ec/32.png) [@Queen\_Bee\_1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Queen_Bee_1)\ **Post date:** [April 29, 2004, 9:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-ebay-fun-the-wedding-dress/242330/20 "2004-04-29T21:30:45Z")
This guy’s story got local radio coverage. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-ebay-fun-the-wedding-dress/242330.md?page=2)