My wife is trying to buy a maternity swimsuit. Pretty easy, right? From shill bids on eBay to now her most current auction being pulled due to listing errors/violation of policies, this Odyssey of hers rivals the Turkey Death Star.
Here are things that you can’t sell, but would be pretty fun to sell, on eBay:
Prohibited and Restricted Items
Are you sure your item is allowed on eBay? You can learn more about prohibited and restricted items here. These items include alcohol, animals, credit cards, food, fireworks, tobacco and weapons.
I dare anyone to make the Ultimate Prohibited Auction of drunk caribou smoking cigars over their ID theft scam while eating caviar and launching M80s. In Canada.
While in Yahoo mail , I noticed an ad for mormon.org. I clicked (without even having to shoot the monkey or zap the fly) and was taken to a page with their traditional responses about their faith. I then clicked on ‘Chat with a Live Missionary’. It loaded an applet and I waited for a little bit. Then a user, Tiffany of the Church of Jesus Christ and Latter-Day Saints, came in and asked how I was doing.
I freaked. I jumped back from the computer and closed the windows. Not once has my house been visited by LDS missionaries, but I did go on their Work and the Glory website and started receiving LDS spam in my NAU account (without entering an e-mail address). Now I wonder if they’ll track my IP address and come knocking on my door in Greenland (which is where I live, if you want to stalk me).
Since I won’t sleep tonight, here’s a light-hearted look at a class where the teacher doesn’t know how to turn off her new phone.
Any item described as being ‘contaminated’ by radiation is not permitted on eBay. For example, a rock taken from a Nevada nuclear test site would fall into this category and would be prohibited.
Thanks for looking out for me, but I takes my gamma radiation like I takes my coffee…
Semi-related posts:
“Internal Organs of Animals: Internal organs of animals (for example, bear gall bladders) may not be listed on eBay.”
Um, ew.
I was doing a Google search last night on Max Scherzer, a draft pick the Diamondbacks were trying to find. I was amused to see this ad on the side:
If only the Diamondbacks had known he was on eBay, they might have saved themselves a lot of time.
I’ve always wondered why Mormon missionaries get sent to Utah. I mean, they’ve never come to our apartment, but I’ve seen them around town.
I apparently fail at HTML.
Hmm. Well, cut-and-paste, then.
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v32/kishi/ebay.jpg
That’s funny. Even more so than my Holocaust survivor searches for school.
I find it interesting that the subject of the email sent by ebay said, “SHMO NOTICE”. I don’t know what it stands for, but ebay should really learn how to spell.