The funniest eBay auction I've ever seen...

So am I, but I don’t care how many horsepower I can gain from this one. I don’t like straight stems.

I’d sooo buy a nice, burl pipe with 8 headers coming down into a single mouthpiece.

That’s why you have to change the plug!

Well, to be fair I was pretty disoriented. For all I know the candle could have been around my neck and the Lei was in my hand. Or maybe it was a paisley tie…

All I know is, that’s just too much horsepower for one pipe.

I’ve got to agree that the award looks pretty fake. For one thing, I’d assume that eBay would wait until more than half of 2007 had passed before handing out its 2007 award for “Most Outstanding Business Seller.”

At least the pipe’s easy to install. I’d hate to see one that wasn’t.

That guy is still a regiestered user. I checked his feedback to see if the winning bidder enjoyed his ass-kicking, but there’s no feedback under that auction number in his feedback history.

I was kind of hoping it would be this one, though:

I just bumbled across some folks with really high expectations of the value of really old computer hardware:

Old keyboard with broken keys - no 3, 4 or 6 - and they keep relisting it month after month. Shipping costs are more than what a new keyboard costs at the shop across the street from my office.

An old Pentium 3 minitower They’re charging less for the whole thing than the other guy wants to ship the broken keyboard.

The really wacko one is somebody wants $330 for a 486DX-33 running Windows for Workgroups 3.11. Despite the photo, that price does not include a keyboard or monitor. But it des include a serial port so you can plug in your external modem! My advice? For $19 more, buy a new Dell, and it wil have an internal modem.

It’s a PowerSeller thing, specifically Titanium-level. If Discounttown had a real award, their name would be on it.

An old classic, and one that still gives me a chuckle:

Ryobi Router Table

sample:
“This Ryobi router table is the worst thing I’ve ever spent money on. Period. I’ve wasted money on a lot of things in my life: women, cars, other things I didn’t need, you name it, but I’ve never felt like I totally 100% wasted my money on something until I bought this router table.”
Note this link is to a copy of the origional auction text.