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  • WOW! I GOTTA HAVE IT!!! Please - no one bid against me!
  • Wait hold it. Yeah there it is.

    A tear.

    Yeah yeah titanic rigggghhhttt.

    Ok ill stop there before I get out of hand.
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  • Sad to think that Grandma's treasured heirloom can be so easily parted with for the low, low price of just $24.95.
  • nwcsnwcs Posts: 13,386 ✭✭✭
    Maybe someone should buy it and then throw it poignantly over the bow of a ship?
  • MrKelsoMrKelso Posts: 2,907 ✭✭✭
    Boy the stories on ebay get better each day. One must wear hip boots when going to the ebay coin section because the _hit gets deep.image


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  • Anyone remember shiro's ebay funny auction? That was great!

    Cameron Kiefer
  • airplanenutairplanenut Posts: 22,240 ✭✭✭✭✭


    << <i>Anyone remember shiro's ebay funny auction? That was great! Cameron Kiefer >>

    Do I ever! What a masterpiece!
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  • CLASSICSCLASSICS Posts: 1,164 ✭✭
    sniff....sniff.....someone give me a tissueimage
  • danglendanglen Posts: 1,674 ✭✭✭
    Wasn't great grandma's maiden name Haversham? If my memory serves me, she met and married Harold? Some time later they begat Harold, Jr., who moved to Detroit and met and married Deb. Sadly, after years as the head of the metal detecting club, Harold passed and left his legacy to thousands of happy eBayers. That's a lot of history going into that $24.95 coin image
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  • CLASSICSCLASSICS Posts: 1,164 ✭✭


    << <i>Wasn't great grandma's maiden name Haversham? If my memory serves me, she met and married Harold? Some time later they begat Harold, Jr., who moved to Detroit and met and married Deb. Sadly, after years as the head of the metal detecting club, Harold passed and left his legacy to thousands of happy eBayers. That's a lot of history going into that $24.95 coin image >>

    .............poor harold, sniff, sniffimage
  • shirohniichanshirohniichan Posts: 4,992 ✭✭✭
    For your reading pleasure:

    WOW!!! GEM BU 1926-S LINCOLN PCGS MS-66 RD STARTS AT $1 L@@K!!!!!

    YOU ARE BIDING ON A 1926-S LINCOLN PENNY FROM MY DECEESED WIFES COLLECTION. HAROLDINE BOT THIS A LONG TIME BACK FROM MISS HAVERSHAMS ESTATE.... YOU SEE... MISS HAVERSHAM WAS A STRANGE LADY WHO USED TO SAVE ALL HER PENNIES IN BIG 55 GALLON METTLE DRUMS AND BURY THEM IN HER BACK YARD WHEN THEY GOT FULL.... SHE BOT THEM BRAND SPANKIN NEW FROM THE BANK IN ROLLS AND STASHED THEM AWAY.... SHE HAD ALL KINDS SHE USED TO GET AND SINCE SHE LIVED IN CALIFORNIA ALMOST ALL OF THEM WERE FROM THE SAN FRANSISCO MINT UP NEAR THE BAY AND SHE HAD ROLLS OF EVERY YEAR FROM THE TIME SHE BOT THE HOUS IN 1908 UNTIL SHE DIED IN 1962.... HAROLDINE NEW THE GUY WHO DUG UP THE BARELS AFTER MISS HAVERSHAM DIED AND HE GAVE HER SOME COINS BUT PUT MOST OF THEM ON THE RAILROAD TRAKS AROUND HERE.... HAROLDINE KEPT GOOD CARE OF HER COINS BUT SHE DIED SO I HAVE TO SELL ALL HER STUFF TO KEEP UP ON THE HOUS PAYMINTS AND ARE DAHTERS MEDICLE BILLS AND STUFF.... IF HAROLDINE WOOD HAVE LISSENED TO ME AND NOT GONE OUT DRIVING IN THE RAIN SHEED BE HERE TODAY TO SELL THE COINS HERSELF BUT SHE WOODNT LISSEN TO ME LIKE MOST WOMEN SHE JUST GOT UP AND DROVE HERSELF TO THE STORE AND GOT HIT BY A TRAIN.... I SAYS TO HER THAT SHE OTTA TAKE THE CAVALIER BECUZ ITS A FRONT DRIVER AND FRONT DRIVERS HANDLE BETTER IN THE RAIN BUT SHE SAID SHE WANTED TO TAKE MY TRUCK...AND I TOLD HER THE TRUCKS A REAR DRIVER AND THEY DONT DO GOOD IN RAIN SPESHALLY WHEN THEY DONT HAVE A LOAD IN BACK BUT SHE WENT OUT ANYWAY...I DON’T KNOW WHY SHE NEVER LISSENED TO ME WHEN I WARNED HER ABOUT THINGS LIKE THAT TIME I TOLD HER NOT TO LEEVE THE GAS CAN IN THE GARAJ NEER THE WATER HEETER BUT SHE WOODNT LISSEN AND WE ENDED UP HAVING A FIRE THAT BURNT PART OF THE HOUS AND LIKE THAT TIME I TOLD HER NOT TO BY THAT DODGE CARAVAN BECUZ THERE TRANNYS ARE JUNK BUT SHE WENT AHED AND BOT IT ANYWAY AND HAD TO TAKE IT IN FOR SERVIS MORE THAN 20 TIMES AND EVERY TIME I TOLD HER SHE SHOODNT HAVE BOT IT IN THE FIRST PLACE BUT SHE WOODNT LISSEN... SHE ALWAYS SAID I HAD TO HAVE THE LAST WORD AND ALL BUT WHOS HEER SELLING THE COINS...IM RIGHT ARENT I?

    THIS IS THE LAST COIN OF HAROLDINES I STILL GOT LEFT. I CLEENED THE OTHERS REEL GOOD WITH A WIRE BRUSH AND SPENT THEM AT THE 711... THIS IS THE ONLY ONE I LEFT AS IT WAS BECAUSE IT WAS REAL PRETTY LIKE IT WAS WITHOUT CLEENING AND HAROLDINE WOOD HAVE LIKED ME TO KEEP MY HANDS OFF OF IT... I LEFT IT ON THE FLOOR IN FRONT OF THE COWCH SO ID SEE IT GOING TO SLEEP AND WAKING UP THIS MORNING... ITS TIME FOR ME TO SELL IT SO SUM OTHER LUCKY PERSUN CAN HAVE IT... I STILL GOT MY MEMRIES AND PICHERS OF HAROLDINE TO KEEP ME CUMPNEE... THOW NOT AS NICE AS HAVING HER SLEEPING ON THE FLORE NEXT TO THE COWCH... HAROLDINE WAS A GOOD AND HONEST BUSINESS WOMAN... A PROVIDER AND SOURCE OF STRENGTH... A TERRIFIC MOTHER AND LOVING WIFE... AND I ONLY WISH THAT ALL THE MEN OUT THERE COULD BE SO LUCKY AS I WAS... IT WOULD TRULY BE A BLESSING FOR ME IF THE PERSON WHO WON THIS COULD BE A YUNG MOTHER WHO WOOD SUM DAY PASS IT DOWN TO HER CHILD... SO I AM ASKING ON THIS LOT... PLEEZE ONLY BID IF YOU ARE SUCH A WIFE AND MOTHER WITH A DAUGHTER OR SON TO PASS THIS ON TO... I AM OLD BUT HAVE MY MEMREES AND NOW SOMEBUDDY YUNG DESERVES A CHANCE TO MAKE THERE OWN MEMREES... I AM GOING TO LIST THIS AT THE LOWEST POSSIBUL PRICE AND MAKE IT AVALABUL FOR THIS PERPUSS... ONE MORE THING... IF YOU ARE REEDING THIS AND HAVE A MOTHER OR WIFE AND YOU HAVE NOT TOLD HER LATELY NOT TO DRIVE AN PICKUP WITH AN EMPTEE BED IN THE RAIN... PLEEZE DO THAT NOW... YOU WILL BE GLAD YOU DID... AND SO WILL SHE... I DON’T KNOW ANYTHING ABOUT COINS BUT I HERD A COIN LIKE THIS IS PCGS MS65RD SELLS FOR ABOUT $75000.... THIS ONE MUST BE AHFUL NICE BECAUSE HAROLDINE REALLY LIKED IT AND SHE NEW HER COINS BETTER THAN ANYONE I EVER MET.... MAYBE ITS MS-66RD IF PCGS WAS TO GRADE IT.... IF I DO SEND IT IN TO PCGS AND THEY SAY ITS MS66RD ILL HAVE TO RAZE THE PRICE AND YOOL LUZE OUT.... I AM ONLY PUTTING A REEZONABLE RESURVE ON THIS AND STARTING THE OCTION AT ONLY $1... LIKE I SAID I DON’T NO NOTHING ABOUT COINS SO YOU GRADE IT.... LOOK AT THE PICHER AND DESIDE FOR YURSELF....

    A GRATE ADDISHUN TO ANY COLLECSHUN... SHURE TO BE AN EXSELLINT INVESTMINT... NO DEELERS PLEEZ... HAROLDINE TOOK GOOD CARE OF THIS HERE COIN FOR A LONG TIME AND IM SHURE SHEED WANT ANOTHER COLLECTER TO HAVE IT.

    SENSE THIS IS AN ESTATE SALE ALL SALES ARE FINAL BUT YOU CAN RETURN IT AND PAY A 50% RESTOCKING FEE. SHIPPING IS ONLY $1.00 BUT YUL HAVE TO PAY FOR MY TAXI FAIR TO THE POST OFFICE THATS REEL FAR AWAY AND PACKAGING AND STUFF THAT SHUD COST ABOUT $200 OR SO.... I HAVUNT DESIDED. IM NOT ABOUT TO GO LINING THE GOVERMINTS POCKET BY PAYING EXTRA FOR INSHURENCE ON THIS SO YOUL HAVE TO TAKE YOUR CHANCES. TO SHOW MY PATRIODIC DUTY IM GOING TO DONATE 50 PERCENT OF THE SHIPPING PRICE TO THE TERRERIST VICTIMS.

    PAYMENT HAS TO BE IN CASH. IF YOU HAVE LESS THAN 10 POSITIVE FEEDBACKS YOU MUST GET PERMISSION BEFORE BIDDING OR ELSE YOUR BID WILL NOT BE ACCEPTED.
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