My eBay "Experiment"
 

I was talking to my buddy the other day about stupid crap that gets sold on eBay. After talking for a while we couldnt think of anything that would be cool enough yet stupid enough to sell to make money. Anyways I got in the shower and when I was done went to dry off my feet and I was looking at my big toe nail. The thing was huge. Anyways I told him about my idea to sell my nail on eBay. I bet him $40 that it would sell. He doesnt think so.

Do you think that it will sell or not sell? This thread is not to plug the nail for sale just to show you my experiment. Here is the link to the auction. Warning there are pics of my toe nail on there LOL.

http://cgi.ebay.ca/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?...tem=5661750086

So you think Im going to be out $40? Do you think that this constitutes as a body part which you cant sell on eBay? I dont know. If I get a bid on it then I will constitute it as a sale because even if they do pull it down it still would of sold anyways.

Im just curious now as if there are dumb stupid people out there willing to buy something as useless as someone elses toe nail.

CRX Forum

Judgeing by the enlarged picture, it looks like the toe comes with the item. It's not clear how much nail the buyer gets.

Will anyone bid? I don't know. We'll see :-)

You might want to point out you are not selling the whole toe nail and just the clipping of it.. don't want bad feedback now do ya?

Do I think it'll sell? Not if no one knows about it..

I say in the auction that its just the toe nail and the white part. I covered my bases.

CRX Forum

In my opinion, the only way to get these auctions up into the big bucks is to get them posted on sites like Fark and their ilk.

The problem there is that often you'll get jackasses bidding in the millions of dollars, which attracts the attention of ebay employees resulting in the auction being pulled.

EDIT: and $13 staring bid for a toenail? Come on!

I just mashed the key pad and hit 12. So I made it 12.99. LOL. Ill try and get it on fark or something tommorow.

CRX Forum

10 dollars for shipping is a little excessive... it would cost 62 cents to throw it in an envelope - a bit more to send it registered... good luck- i'm sure there's someone with a toenail fetish...

I think you should be careful as selling body parts on ebay isn't allowed. This includes toenails. :p

I don't think they'll spank you harder than taking the auction down or maybe getting rid of your account tho.

Btw... $10 for shipping?!?! chuck that sucker in an envelope and stick a stamp on it. where does the rest of the $ go? :p

I'll bid if you split the $40 with me. I expect $30 of it though because i'm paying $23. So $7 profit for me, and $10 + whatever i'm paying you for ur damn nail for you. :lol:

Too bad it's not original.

http://tinyurl.com/bpxsr

For all you people saying 12.99 is too much, how much do you normally spend on other people's toenails?

Oh comon, I think he could sell it.

If there's a casino that would spend thousand on buying a grilled cheese sandwich with a image of jesus christ on it, then there's gotta be somebody werid enough to get his toe nail.

um...yeah. You're gonna be out $40.00.
If absolutely, positively, nothing else...the opening bid is extravegant, and the shipping is just ridiculously high. You might've screwed yourself on this one.

Well, I can guarantee that I, personaly, have never spend more than $3.00 American, on anybody's clipped toenail. Now, had the big toe still been attached...

Be careful with this auction - technically it isn't allowed. It breaks the Ebay rules of selling parts of the body.

I'd suggest calling the bet a no decision and taking it down from Ebay.

You would have to be crazy to bid 2 cents on someone's toe nail! That being said you may just sell it. Lots of nuts out there!

I'll trade you my toe nail for yours

Edit: Wanna see something more bizzaro?

Kellogg's Doomsday Machine

Yeah. "THIS IS A MUST-HAVE FOR ANY SERIOUS COLLECTOR."

Isn't "serious cereal box collector" an oxymoron? And why am I not surprised the seller's feedback is zero?

$100,000.00...for a box of cereal?!? I like Mini Wheats...but not that much. Besides Best If Used By September 11, 2001? I'm guessing they're a little stale. If someone expects me to pay 100 grand, for a box of cereal, shouldn't I at least be able to expect it to be fresh?

Threadjack:
from http://www.thesneeze.com/mt-archives...ont_eat_it.php

Years ago, my friend Lisa gave me an autographed box of Urkel-O's cereal. It is signed: "To Steve -- God Bless, Jaleel White." I don't know, but if I were God, I'm not sure I'd listen to Urkel. In fact, I think my Godly response might be something like, "Hey, fuck you, Urkel. Don't tell me who to bless."

Incidentally, I'm not the "Steve" it was signed for. Lisa found the box in a collectibles store, but that's okay. I don't mind being a second-hand Steve.

I had always been a little creeped out that the cereal was still in the box since 1991. But the Urkel-Os are now 14 years old, and I am no longer creeped out. I'm psyched, because I realized what I have in my possession is not just a box of old cereal (and possibly some larvae), but a chance to taste history.

This particular box of Urkel-O's is unique because it's some kind of weird sales sample, and has "marketing features and benefits" on the back. One of the "features" is actually listed as: Fun, circle-shaped product. I had no idea circles were so fun. At least now I know what to get the kids next Christmas. A fucking circle.

I'd also like to point out, that the cereal itself doesn't have a single thing to do with Urkel. It's just strawberry and banana flavored rings. If there was an episode where Urkel lost his virginity to a strawberry flavored ring, I missed it.

You'd think for a celebrity tie-in, they'd at least make half an effort to actually "tie" it in to something. Even if they just connected the loops together, I'd buy that they were supposed to be Urkel's glasses.

In fact, C3PO's cereal would have been a better Urkel-O's -- look at 'em. Come to think of it, what the hell were C3P0's supposed to be anyway? His eyes? That there is some jedi bullshit.

Well, it's cereal time, and I'm gonna go eat me a big ol' bowl of 1991...


We now return you to your regularly scheduled auction....
Good luck with that one!!

So how'd you put the pictures on your listing?

You off-site posted them to imageshack and just used html?
hmm, interesting...does that get around paying ebay for multiple pics? Is it cool to do that?

Im starting to get insane questions about my auction from people. Someone offered me $550 for the whole toe and $880 for a finger. Another told me that his piggy ran all the way home and then asked what mine did. Another guy told me he would pay whatever I wanted for the whole nail, but was not interested in just the white part at the end. LOL. This is fun.

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ill put a bid in on it , if you paypa. the money back to me.... so you get the 40 bucks....
ahahahahahaha

if someone does actually bid on this theyre not gonna pay for it. Or I assume...

Once on Ebay a Regular Joe
Decided to sell part of his toe
Said Joe, "All that's for sale,
Is the white and the nail!"
But SOME offered LOTS for the whole!

Hahahaha! Well Done! :lol:

Well I think this is a pretty cool test!

http://cgi.ebay.ca/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?...tem=5661750086
oooops....someone was trying to sell human body parts on ebay.....

I believe the EBay comercial where they say that if it's not on EBay it probably doesn't exist.

Seems to me that if eBay hadn't deleted the auction, someone would have bought just to have a story to tell about it..."You get anything interesting lately?"
"No..."
"Well, I just bought a TOENAIL off eBay!"

Did it sell before being pulled?

-Will

If it was pulled for being a 'human body part', I wonder why they
still allow 'real human-hair' wigs?...



crxforum - you should put it on again as a 'real human-toe-nail' extension. :D

Well honestly, I don't know why it was pulled, that was just a guess.

Maybe crxforum can tell us more?

Hmmm... buyer could clone you for body parts.

seems the auction was removed.

you're out 40 bucks arent you?

HAHA

How about an update on what happened with your auction?

You still checking in on your thread?